Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Product Description
- About the NetBackup 5240 Appliance
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance control panel
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance rear panel
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance I/O configuration options
- About the Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf
- NetBackup 5240 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf cables
- Appendix A. Technical specifications and compliance standards
- Regulatory, compliance, and certification information
NetBackup 5240 Appliance overview
The NetBackup 5240 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that can scale to 300TB of available backup capacity. It consists of a NetBackup 5240 Appliance and up to six optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelves. By itself, the 2U NetBackup 5240 Appliance offers internal storage from 4TB to 27TB, depending on the appliance configuration purchased.
A Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf offers 49TBs of storage. Attaching six storage shelves offers 300TBs of storage. As with previous generations of the NetBackup 52xx appliances, the NetBackup 5240 Appliance can be configured as a Master Server or a Media Server. It can also be configured as both.
See Usable appliance storage capacities.
SAS-3 cables connect the NetBackup 5240 Appliance to the storage shelves. SAS-3 cables also connect the storage shelves to each other.
To determine the right NetBackup 5240 Appliance system for your environment, you should consider the environment's future storage requirements over the lifetime of the system.
Veritas offers four NetBackup 5240 Appliance configurations from which to choose. One of these configurations offers the ability to add additional storage capacity to the system by attaching up to six Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelves.
These configurations include the following:
One NetBackup 5240 Appliance with 4TBs of internal storage only
One NetBackup 5240 Appliance with 14TBs of internal storage only
One NetBackup 5240 Appliance with 27TBs of internal storage only
One NetBackup 5240 Appliance with 4TBs of internal storage and up to six external 49TB storage shelves for a total of 300TBs of storage
If your environment requires at least 4TBs of storage but less than 27TBs of storage, you should consider the 14TB and 27TB configurations.
If your environment requires more than 27TBs of storage, consider the NetBackup 5240 Appliance with 4TBs of internal storage and one 49TB Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf. If more storage is required, you can add up to five additional 49TB storage shelves to this configuration.