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

Connecting NetBackup nodes to the network

This section provides information about connecting the network ports on both compute nodes to your network. Network ports on the rear panel of the compute node are shown in the following diagram.

  • Item 1 - IPMI (remote management) port

  • Item 2 - eth0/NIC1 port (for laptop connection)

    • The default IP address for this private network port is 192.168.229.233.

    • The default login credentials are:

      User name: admin

      Password: P@ssw0rd

  • Item 3 - eth1/NIC2 port

Each of these ports requires a Cat5 (minimum) Ethernet cable.

  • SSH

  • Veritas Remote Management Console (virtual KVM)

  • Physical keyboard and monitor

The common tasks that you can perform in the appliance shell menu include:

  • Initial configuration

  • Network configuration

  • Appliance management

Veritas recommends using the IPMI port to establish remote access to the appliance.

The private network address for the eth0/NIC1 port is reserved to provide a direct connection from a laptop to perform the initial configuration. NIC1 (eth0) is typically not connected to your network environment.

After initial configuration you can change the NIC1 (eth0) IP address to repurpose the port.

To connect the nodes to the customer network

  1. Choose which ports and method you want to use to connect to your network.
  2. Plug an Ethernet cable into the IPMI port on each node.
  3. Plug the other end of each Ethernet cable into a network switch.