Veritas™ 5260 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5260
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance drives
    3. About the 5260 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
      3.  
        About the integrated BMC beep codes
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. Next steps after installation
    1.  
      Connecting the network cables
    2.  
      Connecting the power cords
    3.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    4.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    6.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  5. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Replacing the appliance cover
    6. Connecting the storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth storage shelf to an appliance
  6. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    3. Recabling to connect additional storage shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelf
      3.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has three operating shelf
  7. Appendix C. 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
  8.  
    Index

Determining rack locations

The appliance and the storage shelves are both two rack units (2RU) high. To help you identify RU spacing, many rack manufacturers typically use a system of lines and sequential numbers starting at the bottom of the rack. The front and the rear of the rack are marked the same to ensure that the rails are installed straight and level. One RU has three holes. The holes for one RU are typically marked with a line below the bottom hole and another line above the top hole.

Next, use the rack templates that ship with the storage shelves to determine the mounting locations.

See Best practices for rack installation.

To determine rack locations for the storage shelves

  1. A storage shelf is 2RU high. Multiply the number 2 by the number of shelves that you plan to install.

    An appliance and six storage shelves require a total of 14 RUs.

  2. Use the rack templates that are provided with the hardware to determine RU locations. The templates show the front and rear of a storage shelf in a rack.
  3. Fold the template along the yellow dotted lines to match the rack holes exactly.
  4. Record the rack positions to help you locate them easily when mounting the hardware.
  5. Next, assess the SAS-3 cables to be sure that you have the correct lengths for your installation.

The following procedure provides information to help you verify that you have the correct lengths of SAS-3 cable.

To determine SAS-3 cable requirements

  • Note that each rack unit (RU) is 44.50 mm (1.752 inches) in height. The 5260 Appliance and the 5260 Storage Shelf are both 2RU high.