Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- Preinstallation requirements
- Installation procedures
- Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
- Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
- Appendix C. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
Customer-provided environment and supplies
For best ventilation, the rack cabinet:
Should be at least 100 cm (4 feet) from walls
Should have at least 100 cm (4 feet) from other cabinets on the front and back of the appliance and the storage shelves
Data centers with two-foot spaces in the front and in the back of the appliances are acceptable with proper cooling and ventilation.
Refer to the following section for more details.
See Heat dissipation.
The following describes the necessary personnel and equipment that are needed at the installation site:
At least two people or a mechanical lift to move the appliance and the storage shelves.
Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) cables to connect the appliance to your corporate network.
Optional: For SAS tape-out capability only. A SAS cable with at least one SAS-3 connector. The second connector can be SAS-2 or SAS-3 depending on the type of tape-out device the customer uses.
A USB-keyboard and a monitor to connect to the appliance.
A 19-inch rack with dual Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with 120VAC or 220VAC power supplies.