HP Surestore Direct Backup Engine XP User's Guide

Backup solutions 21

Configurations

Figure 4 to Figure 6 shows three different examples of configurations that

can be used for Direct Backup Engine operations.

For fibre-channel interface connections, you can use the switches as for

ordinary switch connections, and no special settings are required for the

XP Disk Arrays.

SAN Environment

Tape Device

XP Dis

Array

FC CA

VOL

CHF

VOL

Extended Copy

Command

Backup

Different

initiator ports

XP Dis

Array

Open-System Server with Backup Application

Target

CHF

Initiator

MCU Initiator

CHF

RCU Target

CHF

Target

Port group

Figure 4. Using Direct Backup Engine and Continuous Access via Different Initiator

Ports