Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description
- Product overview
- About the appliance
- About storage capacity
- About best practices for rack installation
- About the appliance rear panel
- About the mainboard RAID controller
- About the external RAID controller
- About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations
- About the FC HBA port configurations
- About the 2-port 8 Gb FC HBA
- About the dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet card
- About the Veritas 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf / Veritas 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf
- Appliance and storage shelf connections
- NetBackup 5230 documentation
- Cables
- Technical specifications, standards, and compliance information
- Appendix A. About the optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf
Appliance and storage shelf connections
When more than one storage shelf is used, SAS cables connect the second shelf to the first shelf. The second shelf is not physically connected to the appliance.
Network cables for use with Fibre Channel ports or Ethernet ports are not provided. Customers must supply any Fibre Channel or Ethernet cables.
The following figure shows the cable connections between the appliance and the storage shelves.
Table: Appliance connection to two storage shelves defines the numbers that are used in the drawings.
Table: Appliance connection to two storage shelves describes the configuration of an appliance and two storage shelves.
Table: Appliance connection to two storage shelves
Number | Component |
|---|---|
1 | Appliance |
2 | Appliance SAS_IN and SAS_OUT ports |
3A | Storage Shelf SAS_IN ports connecting to the appliance |
3B | Storage Shelf SAS_IN ports connecting to another storage shelf |
4 | Storage Shelf SAS_OUT ports, only used to connect to SAS_IN ports on other storage shelves |
5 | Storage shelves |
Starting with the NetBackup Appliance release 2.6.0.3, the use of up to four storage shelves with one appliance is supported.
Table: Appliance connection to two storage shelves also lists the components in the four-shelf configuration.
See About the Veritas 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf / Veritas 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf.