HP Cisco MDS 9216 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual page 1137

Chapter 58 Configuring NASB
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
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SCSI Extended Copy
(XCOPY) commands
The task of managing and preparing the source and destination targets is performed by the media server.
For example, if the destination is a tape library, the media server issues commands to load and unload
the correct tape and position of the tape write head at the correct offset within the tape.
Configuring NASB
Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup (NASB) can be enabled on an entire SSM or it can be enabled
on one or more groups of four ports on an SSM. Enabling NASB on interfaces has the following
restrictions:
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To configure NASB using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Expand Switches, expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane.
You see the Intelligent Storage Services configuration in the Information pane.
Click the NASB tab.
Step 2
You see the NASB configuration in the Information pane.
Click Create Row.
Step 3
You see the NASB configuration dialog box shown in
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Example Configuration with NASB Device as Data Mover
Media
server
Logical block
Network-Accelerated
Serverless Backup
(NASB) device
Read
Storage (disks)
The fewest number of interfaces that you can enable is four. You can specify fc1 through fc4 but not
fc1 through fc2.
The first interface in the group must be 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, or 29. You can specify fc5 through
fc8 but not fc7 through fc10.
The groups of four interfaces do not need to be consecutive. You can specify fc1 through fc8 and
fc17 through fc20.
Client
(Application server)
list
SAN
Write
Tape library
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
Configuring NASB
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