VERITAS NetBackup Series Manual page 10

Note: If you plan to use the SAN Client feature with your appliance and you have
SLES 10 clients with QLogic FC HBA cards, a driver update is required. Before you
proceed with backups of any SLES 10 clients, Veritas recommends that you first
upgrade the QLogic driver in all SLES 10 clients to version 8.03.07.03.10.3-k or
later.
A SAN client is a special NetBackup client that can back up large amounts of data
rapidly over a SAN connection rather than a LAN. For example, a database host
can benefit from high-speed backups and restores. Fibre Transport is the name of
the NetBackup high-speed data transport method that is part of the SAN Client
feature.
The backup and restore traffic occurs over Fibre Channel (FC), and the NetBackup
server and client administration traffic occurs over the LAN.
For a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx appliance, Fibre Transport also provides high-speed
traffic to a NetBackup 5000 series appliance that supports Fibre Transport. The
5000 series appliance functions as the storage host for SAN client backups.
Figure 1-1 shows a SAN Client configuration.
A SAN Client configuration
Figure 1-1
FT traffic zone
Backup traffic zone
Introducing Fibre Channel support on NetBackup Appliance
About NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport
SAN clients (database servers and
application hosts)
Fibre Transport media servers
Disk and tape storage
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