Assigning Fibre Channel ports
If you want to perform backups over Fibre Channel, you must assign ports for the workloads.
You can configure Fibre Channel ports for a specific workload. Before you begin, ensure that all the media servers are healthy.
To assign Fibre Channel ports to a workload:
- In the NetBackup Flex Scale management infrastructure UI, navigate to Monitor > Infrastructure > Fibre channel or from the NetBackup Flex Scale webui click Cluster Management > Infrastructure > Fibre channel.
- Select the ports that you want to assign and click Clean.
- Select the ports that you want to assign and click Discover devices.
- Select the ports that you want to assign and click Assign port.
- In the Selected ports list, select the ports.
- In the Workload list, select the workload that you want to configure for the port.
- Click Assign ports.
The port and the workload configured for the port is displayed under Assigned ports.
- Click Confirm.
On the Fibre Channel tab, the ports are shown as assigned and the configured workload is displayed.
After you assign the ports, ensure that the storage device configuration is done from the NetBackup JAVA UI. Create a single Storage Unit (STU) which includes all the media servers and then configure backup policies which include this STU.