Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance iSCSI Guide

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NetBackup 5240 appliance I/O configuration H

The rear panel of the NetBackup 5240 appliance contains three PCIe riser card assemblies. PCIe riser card assemblies 1 and 2 each support three standard PCIe cards, while PCIe riser card assembly 3 supports two low profile PCIe cards. The slots are labeled 1 to 8. The following graphic shows the riser assemblies and the slot numbers.

Figure: Rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot assignments

Rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot assignments

The NetBackup 5240 appliance supports multiple PCIe-based I/O configuration options. The following table shows the configuration H option that has the iSCSI card in slot 2.

Table: NetBackup 5240 appliance configuration H

I/O configuration option

Slot

1 *

Slot

2

Slot

3

Slot

4

Slot

5

Slot

6

Slot

7 **

Slot

8

H

-

10 GbE NIC 1, 2

(iSCSI)

10 GbE NIC 1, 2

-

8 Gb FC HBA 2

8 Gb FC HBA 2

-

-

* Slot 1 contains a factory installed PCIe RAID 6 controller when at least one NetBackup 5240 Storage Shelf is purchased with the NetBackup 5240 appliance. Otherwise, slot 1 is not populated.

** Slot 7 contains the NetBackup 5240 Appliance's internal PCIe raid controller. This RAID controller is used to create the RAID 1 Array for the disk drives on which the appliance operating system is installed. The operating system drives are located in slots 0 and 1 of the front panel.

PCIe card cable connection types:

1 Direct-Attach copper cable (also called a Twinaxial cable or Twinax)

2 Fiber optic cable

See the NetBackup Appliance Product Description Guide for more details.