Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5240
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3.  
      Appliance control panel
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    3.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    4.  
      Enabling SAS tape-out functionality
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
  3. Installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
    9.  
      Connecting the network cables
    10.  
      Connecting the power cords
    11.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    12.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    13.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Reinstalling the appliance into the rack
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Determining rack locations
    8.  
      Installing the storage shelf rails
    9.  
      Installing the storage shelf or shelves into a rack
    10.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    11.  
      Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
    12.  
      Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
    13.  
      Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
    14.  
      Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
    15.  
      Connecting the network cables
    16.  
      Connecting the power cords
    17.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
  5. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
  6. Appendix C. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  7.  
    Index

Determining rack locations

The appliance and the storage shelves are both two rack units (2RU) high. To help you identify RU spacing, many rack manufacturers typically use a system of lines and sequential numbers starting at the bottom of the rack. The front and the rear of the rack are marked the same to ensure that the rails are installed straight and level. One RU has three holes. The holes for one RU are typically marked with a line below the bottom hole and another line above the top hole.

Next, use the rack templates that ship with the storage shelves to determine the mounting locations.

See Best practices for rack installation.

To determine rack locations for the storage shelves

  1. A storage shelf is 2RU high. Multiply the number 2 by the number of shelves that you plan to install.

    An appliance and six storage shelves require a total of 14 RUs.

  2. Use the rack templates that are provided with the hardware to determine RU locations. The templates show the front and rear of a storage shelf in a rack.
  3. Fold the template along the yellow dotted lines to match the rack holes exactly.
  4. Record the rack positions to help you locate them easily when mounting the hardware.
  5. Next, assess the SAS-3 cables to be sure that you have the correct lengths for your installation.

The following procedure provides information to help you verify that you have the correct lengths of SAS-3 cable.

To determine SAS-3 cable requirements

  1. Note that each rack unit (RU) is 44.50 mm (1.752 inches) in height. The NetBackup 5240 Appliance and the NetBackup 5240 Storage Shelf are both 2RU high.
  2. SAS-3 cables are 1 meter (3.28 feet) or 3 meter (9.84 feet) long. The 1-meter cable is long enough to connect an appliance to the fourth storage shelf, assuming that the recommended configuration is used.

    Verify that your cables are long enough to connect all of the devices.

  3. Order the 3m cable if the 1m cable is not long enough.