Veritas Access 3340 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: 3340
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Supported software
    2.  
      Access 3340 compute node and 5U84 storage shelves
    3.  
      Access 3340 compute node disk drives
    4.  
      Access 3340 compute node control panel
    5.  
      Access 3340 compute node rear panel
    6.  
      5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
    7.  
      5U84 storage shelf control panel
    8.  
      5U84 storage shelf rear panel
    9.  
      5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
    10.  
      5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
    11.  
      Cables and connectors
  2. Pre-installation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    3.  
      Compute node shipping container contents
    4.  
      Dimensions and determining rack locations
    5.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    6.  
      Heat dissipation guidelines
    7.  
      Cable length verification
    8.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Hardware installation procedures
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Installing a storage shelf
    3.  
      Installing disk drives into a storage shelf
    4.  
      Installing the storage shelf bezels
    5.  
      Installing the compute node rack rails
    6.  
      Installing the compute node into a rack
    7.  
      Connecting the hardware
    8.  
      Connecting Access nodes to the network
    9.  
      Connecting the power cords to the hardware
    10.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    11.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the Access Appliance shell menu
    12.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    2.  
      Installing the hardware
    3.  
      Connecting one Expansion shelf to the Primary shelf
    4.  
      Connecting two Expansion shelves to the Primary shelf
    5.  
      Connecting three Expansion shelves to the Primary shelf
  5. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating storage shelf
    1.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    2.  
      Installing the hardware
    3.  
      Connecting one Expansion shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion shelf
    4.  
      Connecting two Expansion shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion shelf
    5.  
      Connecting one Expansion shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion shelves
  6. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space after adding one or more new Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Access 3340 Appliance shell menu

Turning off the existing hardware

You must perform a soft shutdown of the existing compute nodes before you add and turn on any Expansion shelves. A soft shutdown informs the node operating systems to stop, closes all active processes, and stops all communications to the Primary shelf. After the operating system stops all of the processes, the appliance turns itself off.

Be sure to perform these steps in the order that they are presented.

To turn off the existing hardware

  1. Perform a soft shutdown of the compute nodes.

    • SSH to the Access shell menu.

    • Enter Cluster.

    • Enter shutdown all to shut down both nodes.

  2. Verify that the compute nodes are completely turned off.

    • All LEDs are off. Fans are not running.

    • (Optional) Open the Remote Management interface on each node.

      Click on the System tab to obtain system summary information.

      Verify that the Host Power Status information shows that Host is currently OFF.

  3. Manually turn off the Primary shelf.

    • Locate the on/off switches on the two power supplies on the rear of the Primary shelf.

    • Press the switches to off.