Duplication via SAN
Hi Guys,
I'm having problem to make my SLP to run via SAN and hope you guys can help me or give me some ideas on this.
Here's my environment details.
All Netbackup running on version 7.7.2
- 1 master server - Linux Redhat
- 41 clients - Linux Redhat
- There is no dedicated media server
On Master Server:
We have 2 HBAs. One is 16GB (Qlogic QLE2660), which is not supported by Veritas (yet) based on hardware compatibility matrix. So we added a temporary HBA (Qlogic QLE2460) with 4GB speed. Driver successfully installed on QLE2460.
We successfully configured FT backup for SAN clients based on below zoning setup.
SAN Client Zone Member
- Client - initiator
- Master Server - target (4GB HBA)
- SAN storage - initiator/target
The backup setup for all SAN client is to back them up to disk (which is on master server). And then it will be duplicated to tape via SLP.
The issue is currently all the SLP is running via LAN and not FT. I wonder why since both the disk and tape library are connected to master server. And to think that tape drive is on FC but data transfer to LAN is just doesn't make sense to me.
So we zone the 16GB HBA (initiator) together with the 4GB HBA (target), setting the master server to be a SAN client as well (bpclntcmd -sanclient 1), thinking that perhaps we can make the data transfer from the 16GB card to 4GB card. The transport type when we backing up master server by itself now changed to FT. But it failed with FT Pipe could not be opened (83).
Can we do a zoning for master server as below?
Master Server Zone Member
- Master Server - initiator (16GB HBA)
- Master Server - target (4GB HBA)
- Tape library - target
Basically we have 2 problems now.
- Based on what I explained above. Is it possible SLP to run on FT? Or do we need to have dedicated FT media server?
- Error 83 - Is it because both HBA belongs to the master server?
Please help!~
Regards,
Jason Anthonius
"The issue is currently all the SLP is running via LAN and not FT. I wonder why since both the disk and tape library are connected to master server. And to think that tape drive is on FC but data transfer to LAN is just doesn't make sense to me."
There is no LAN involved here as there is only one server, your master server. It has both storage and tape connected. There is nowhere for the data to go except from disk to tape.
You don't need to worry about this.