Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- About the appliance and the storage shelves
- Compute node drives
- About the 5360 Appliance control panel
- Compute node rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
- 5U84 storage shelf control panel
- 5U84 storage shelf rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
- 5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
- Cables and connectors
- About IPMI configuration
- Preinstallation requirements
- Customer-provided environment and supplies
- Appliance shipping container contents
- Storage shelf shipping container contents
- Dimensions and determining rack locations
- Best practices for rack installation
- Storage shelf rack requirements
- Heat dissipation
- Cable length verification
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
- Hardware installation procedures
- Overview
- Installing a storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing the compute node rack rails
- Installing the compute node into a rack
- Connecting the hardware to one compute node
- Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
- Connecting Flex nodes to the network
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
- Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
- Appendix A. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion shelves
- Appendix B. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion shelf
- Overview
- Turning off the existing hardware
- Installation instructions
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
- Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
About the appliance and the storage shelves
The Veritas 5360 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system designed for large workloads. It provides high performance with multiple service offerings and gets deployed in less than 60 minutes.
The Veritas 5360 appliance is available as a single-node or a two-node appliance.
The Veritas 5360 appliance and storage shelves provide storage capacity in several configurations. The 5360 compute node does not provide any storage. The 5U84 storage shelves provide storage capacity for the appliance system. You must have a Primary Storage Shelf that connects to the compute node. You can add up to three optional Expansion Storage Shelves for additional storage.
The Veritas 5360 high availability (HA) configuration includes two compute nodes, one required Primary Storage Shelf, and up to three optional Expansion Storage Shelves.
The Veritas 5360 Appliance supports the following software:
Flex Appliance release 3.2 and above
Before you install the hardware, refer to the following section for important details about the dimensions of the hardware.
See Dimensions and determining rack locations.
The compute node is two rack units (2RU) high.
Each storage shelf is 5RU high and contains 2 drawers with 42 disk drive slots per drawer.
The rear of the Primary shelf includes two redundant RAID controller I/O modules. The Expansion shelves contain two I/O modules for connectivity to the Primary shelf and to other Expansion shelves. Half capacity storage shelves are also available for the 5360 appliances.
Refer to the Veritas 5360 Product Description Guide at the following site for details about usable storage capacity.
Veritas Appliance documentation
With the required 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf, the compute node operates at 220 VAC at 3.1 A with C13 and C14 connectors. The Storage shelves operate with C19 and C20 connectors.