Veritas NetBackup™ 5330 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- NetBackup 5330 compute node overview
- NetBackup 5330 compute node PCIe card configurations
- NetBackup 5330 compute node Ethernet port configurations
- NetBackup 5330 storage shelves and disk drives
- NetBackup 5330 cables and connectors
- Serial number locations
- Required reading
- Understanding hardware scenarios
- Understanding the NetBackup 5330 hardware installation sequence
- About IPMI configuration
- Other NetBackup 5330 product documentation
- Pre-installation requirements
- Hardware installation procedures
- Hardware installation scenarios
- Installing a primary shelf or an expansion shelf
- Installing disk drives into a primary shelf or an expansion shelf
- Installing the compute node
- Installing the SFPs into the Fibre Channel (FC) ports
- Connecting a NetBackup 5330 compute node to a primary shelf
- Connecting one expansion shelf to a primary shelf
- Performing a soft shutdown before adding a new expansion shelf
- Connecting new expansion shelves to existing expansion shelves and an existing primary shelf
- Connecting the power cords to the hardware
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
- Hardware installation procedures for a NetBackup 5330 high availability configuration
- Appendix A. Adding the disk space of a new Expansion Storage Shelf
Understanding hardware scenarios
Support of the 6TB disk drives in the storage shelves started with the NetBackup 5330 Appliance Release 2.7.1. Previous releases supported only the 3TB storage disk drives. You cannot mix 3TB and 6TB drives in a single storage shelf. However, you can use storage shelves with the 3TB drives or the 6TB drives in an appliance system.
The support of the high availability (HA) solution begins with the NetBackup 5330 Appliance Release 3.1. The solution requires two NetBackup 5330 nodes, a Primary Shelf, and an optional maximum of five Expansion Shelves.
The following list describes the instructions that this guide provides.
Installing and connecting a compute node and a primary shelf.
Installing and connecting a partner node to an existing primary shelf and an existing compute node to create an HA environment.
Installing and connecting an expansion shelf to a primary shelf and a compute node.
Installing additional expansion shelves and connecting them to an existing expansion shelf, primary shelf, and compute node.
Caution:
When you add expansion shelves to an operational appliance, best practices recommend that you turn off the compute node, the primary shelf, and expansion shelves.
Note:
Before you add expansion shelves to systems that currently use versions 2.6.1.2 and earlier, you must upgrade to NetBackup Appliance Release 2.7.1, or later. Refer to the NetBackup Appliance Upgrade Guide for Release 2.7.x - RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System, which is located at the following website. NetBackup Appliance documentation
Before you add the partner node to complete the NetBackup 5330 HA configuration, upgrade your system to NetBackup Appliance software version 3.1, or later. Refer to the NetBackup 52xx and 5330 Appliance Upgrade Guide, which is located at the following website. NetBackup Appliance documentation