Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description

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Platform: Veritas 5230

About storage capacity

The standard NetBackup 5230 Appliance without attached storage shelves provides 4.55 TB of storage capacity. This configuration uses 1-TB storage drives in slots 4 through 11 in the front panel of the appliance. You can also use 3-TB storage drives in these slots to achieve 13.65 TB of formatted storage without any externally attached storage shelves. The option of 3-TB appliance drives is available in NetBackup Appliance release 2.6.0.2 and subsequent releases.

Note:

The disk drives in slots 0 and 1 of the appliance are 1-TB drives. These drives provide the operating system for the appliance.

To expand the NetBackup 5230 Appliance storage capacity, you can connect up to four storage shelves to the appliance.

The storage shelf models include the:

Table: NetBackup 5230 storage capacity options provides information regarding the different storage capacity configurations that are available with the NetBackup 5230 Appliance.

Note:

Storage shelves use disk drives with capacities of 2-TB, 3-TB, or 6-TB, depending on the storage shelf model.

See About the Veritas 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf / Veritas 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf.

See Appendix A, About the optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf.

Table: NetBackup 5230 storage capacity options

Appliance storage drives (TB)

Appliance available MSDP storage capacity (TB)

Storage shelf drives (TB)

Storage shelf available MSDP storage capacity (TB)

Appliance and one storage shelf available MSDP storage capacity (TB)

Appliance and two storage shelves available MSDP storage capacity (TB)

Appliance and three storage shelves available MSDP storage capacity (TB)***

Appliance and four storage shelves MSDP available storage capacity (TB)***

1

4.55

2

24

28.55

52.55

*

*

1

4.55

3

36

40.55

76.55

112.55

148.55

1

4.55

6

49**

53.55

102.55

151.55

200.55

3

13.65

2

24

37.65

61.65

*

*

3

13.65

3

36

49.65

85.65

121.65

157.65

* If required, 2-TB storage drives are available.

** You can also add a 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf to an existing 4.55TB appliance with attached 3U16 24TB or 3U16 36TB Storage Shelves. However, you must connect the 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf to the last 3U16 24TB or 36TB Storage Shelf that is connected to the appliance.

For example, NetBackup 5230 Appliance + 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf + 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf + 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf + 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf.

In addition, attaching a 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf to a 3U16 24TB or 36TB Storage Shelf requires a SAS3-to-SAS2 cable to connect the shelves. Finally, the SAS3 data transfer rate of the 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf drops to match the SAS2 data transfer rate of the 3U16 24TB or 36TB Storage Shelf.

See Appendix A, About the optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf.

*** For all 3- and 4-storage shelf configurations, Veritas strongly recommends that you upgrade the memory capacity from 128GB to 192GB when using NetBackup Appliance software versions 3.1 or later, due to the increased resource requirements from updated MSDP encryption standards.

Note:

Connecting up to four Veritas 3U16 24TB or 36TB Storage Shelves requires the NetBackup 5230 Appliance to be running appliance software version 2.6.0.2 or later.

To connect a Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf requires the NetBackup 5230 Appliance to be running appliance software version 3.0 or higher. A patch is available for appliance software version 2.7.3, which you can download using the following link:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116670

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