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
Appliance shipping container contents
The appliance and each storage shelf are shipped in separate containers. Each container includes other boxes and contents. The disk drives are installed into the appliance and the storage shelf at the factory.
The following items ship within the appliance box.
Cables to connect the appliance to the Primary external storage.
Four SAS-3 cables for a non-HA compute node.
Four additional (total of eight) SAS-3 cables for an HA compute node.
Cables to connect the HA compute nodes.
Two CAT-6 Ethernet cables for interconnection between HA compute nodes. Included in Accessory Package.
QR code card that includes links to the following items:
Veritas Appliance Getting Started documents (https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100053037) such as deployment plans and cabling posters
Appliances Support page (https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.Appliances) that links to the appliance documentation and other resources
Envelope containing the following:
Warranty and license information
Accessory box containing rack rails
Two power cables
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