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

Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console

The following procedure describes how to add new storage shelf disk space to an operational NetBackup 53xx appliance by using the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.

This section does not apply to the Flex Appliance.

To add the disk space of an expansion shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console

  1. Launch the NetBackup Appliance Web Console and verify that the new storage device appears on the Monitor > Hardware page. If the new storage device does not appear, check the cable connections and make sure that the power is on.
  2. Click Manage > Storage.
  3. Select the Disks tab.
  4. Click Scan.
  5. In the Do you want to scan for new disks? dialog box, click Yes to start the scan.
  6. When the scan is complete, click OK to refresh the Disks tab.

    In the Disk column, new ID's should appear for the new Expansion Shelf. Six new Data disks and one new Meta disk is displayed. The data disks have the following attributes:

    • Type = Data.

    • Status = New Available

    The Meta disk has the following attributes:

    • Type = Meta

    • Status = New Available

  7. Click Add for each newly available disk to activate the storage.
  8. In the Confirmation dialog box, click Yes to continue.

    When the process completes, the following message should appear:

    Adding disk <disk ID>. Succeeded.

  9. Click OK to refresh the system.

    Repeat steps 7 through 9 to add each new disk.

    After the disks have been added, the Disks tab should show the following attributes for the new disks:

    • Status = In Use

    • Unallocated = n TB

      Where n is the usable volume or disk space available in the new disk.