Veritas™ 5350 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Platform: Veritas 5350
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Compute node disk drives
    3.  
      Compute node rear panel
    4.  
      Compute node control panel
    5.  
      5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
    6.  
      5U84 storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      5U84 storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
    9.  
      5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
    10.  
      Cables and connectors
    11.  
      About IPMI configuration
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Dimensions and determining rack locations
    5.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Cable length verification
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Hardware installation procedures
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Installing a storage shelf
    3.  
      Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
    4.  
      Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
    5.  
      Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
    6.  
      Installing the compute node rack rails
    7.  
      Installing the compute node into a rack
    8.  
      Connecting the hardware to one compute node
    9.  
      Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
    10.  
      Connecting NetBackup nodes to the network
    11.  
      Connecting Flex nodes to the network
    12.  
      Connecting the power cords
    13.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    14.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    15.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    16.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    17.  
      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.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to the Primary Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf
    6.  
      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.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    6.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
  6. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new NetBackup Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
  7. Appendix D. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Flex Appliance Console

Compute node control panel

A control panel is located on the right front side of the compute node.

The following table describes the components of the control panel.

Number

Component

Description

1

Power button with integrated LED

The System Status LED uses the colors green and amber to display the health of the compute node.

2

Drive Activity LED

The drive activity LED on the front panel indicates drive activity from the on-board hard disk controllers.

3

System ID button with integrated LED

The System ID button toggles on and off the integrated ID LED and the blue server board LED. The system ID LED identifies the system for maintenance when it is racked with similar server systems.

4

System Cold Reset Button (recessed, tool required)

When you depress the System Cold Reset button it restarts and re-initializes the appliance. Veritas recommends that you do not use this button.

8

9

NIC-1 Activity LED

NIC-2 Activity LED

The NIC LEDs represent a network interface controller. When network links are detected on the controllers, the LEDs are activated and remain on. The LEDs blink when network activity occurs. The amount of network activity determines the rate of blinking.

7

NMI button (recessed, a tool is required for use)

When the non-maskable interrupt (NMI) button is depressed the appliance goes into a halt state. This feature is useful when you perform diagnostics for a given issue where a memory dump is necessary to help determine the cause of the problem. To prevent an inadvertent system halt, the NMI button is located behind the front control panel faceplate.

10

System Status LED

The System Status LED is a bi-color indicator that uses the colors green and amber to display the current health of the compute node.

Two locations are provided for you to monitor the health of the system. You can find the first location on the front control panel. The second location is on the back edge of the server board on the rear of the compute node. Both LEDs show the same state of health.