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About Fibre Transport Deduplication target mode
port verification
Configuring direct backups from a NetBackup
52xx or 53xx appliance to a NetBackup 50xx
appliance using Fibre Channel
About Fibre Transport Deduplication target mode port verification
The Fibre Transport Deduplication feature enables you to use a appliance as a
target host for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication. After you configure
a Fibre Channel (FC) HBA card on a target appliance, you can use the
> FibreTransport Deduplication Show
Transport Deduplication feature. If you have configured the feature properly, you
see the following output:
Testsys.Settings > FibreTransport Deduplication Show
[Info] Fibre Transport Deduplication is enabled.
You can also use the
confirm the status of the Fibre Transport Deduplication feature is configured and
working. You can verify the following from the output:
The
,
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qla2x00tgt
The Configuration Type column shows
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have configured as target ports.
The Physical State column shows the
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configuration type
Under the Status column, the target mode ports should have a status of Online.
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This topic describes how to configure a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx media server to
send all backups directly to a NetBackup 5020 or 5030 deduplication appliance.
The target and the initiator configuration for the appliances must be set as follows:
NetBackup 5020 or 5030
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This appliance is set up as the disk pool (target). Any available target port on a
Fibre Channel HBA card can be used.
NetBackup 52xx or 53xx
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This appliance is set up as the backup image source (initiator). Any available
initiator port on a Fibre Channel HBA card can be used.
Configuring Fibre Transport on the appliance
command to show the status of the Fibre
Manage > FibreChannel > Show
and
scst
scst_user
.
Target(MSDP)
command to verify and
drivers are loaded.
for the ports that you
Target(MSDP)
mode for the ports with the
Target
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