Veritas Access 3340 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.2, 8.1, 8.0, 7.4.3, 7.4.2, 7.3.2)
Platform: Veritas 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 Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion 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 Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion 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 Appliance shell menu

Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Access Appliance shell menu

The following procedure describes how to add new storage shelf disk space to an Access 3340 appliance from the Access Appliance shell menu. The steps may differ based on the Access Appliance release version. Starting with version 8.0, you cannot scan the storage after connecting a storage shelf if the cluster is not configured. During the cluster configuration, the storage is automatically scanned and you can view the disk space in the Access Appliance UI. If you add a storage shelf after the cluster is configured, run the system storage-scan command from the Appliance shell menu to detect and add the disk space.

For 7.4.3.x or earlier versions, the following procedure shows how to add the disk space for a newly added storage shelf.

To add the disk space from the Access Appliance shell menu

  1. You can reach the shell menu in two ways:

    • Use PuTTY to start an SSH session.

    • Connect a laptop, keyboard and monitor, or KVM to the appliance.

  2. Log on to the shell menu. The Main_Menu prompt appears.
  3. Perform a scan as follows:

    • Type Manage and press Enter.

    • Type Storage and press Enter.

    • Type Scan and press Enter.

    The scan takes a couple of minutes to complete.

  4. View the available storage space as follows:

    • Navigate to the Storage menu.

    • At the prompt, type Show Disk and press Enter.

  5. Navigate from the Access Appliance Shell Menu, Main_Menu, to the Access command-line interface or the Access Appliance UI.