Veritas™ 5350 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Platform: Veritas 5350
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Compute node disk drives
    3.  
      Compute node rear panel
    4.  
      Compute node control panel
    5.  
      5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
    6.  
      5U84 storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      5U84 storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
    9.  
      5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
    10.  
      Cables and connectors
    11.  
      About IPMI configuration
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Dimensions and determining rack locations
    5.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Cable length verification
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Hardware installation procedures
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Installing a storage shelf
    3.  
      Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
    4.  
      Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
    5.  
      Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
    6.  
      Installing the compute node rack rails
    7.  
      Installing the compute node into a rack
    8.  
      Connecting the hardware to one compute node
    9.  
      Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
    10.  
      Connecting NetBackup nodes to the network
    11.  
      Connecting Flex nodes to the network
    12.  
      Connecting the power cords
    13.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    14.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    15.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    16.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    17.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to the Primary Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf
    6.  
      Connecting three Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf
  5. Appendix B. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion shelf
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    6.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
  6. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new NetBackup Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
  7. Appendix D. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Flex Appliance Console

About the appliance and the storage shelves

The Veritas 5350 Appliance is a media server solution designed for large workloads. It provides high performance with multiple service offerings and gets deployed in less than 60 minutes.

The Veritas 5350 appliance is available as a single-node or a two-node appliance.

The Veritas 5350 appliance and storage shelves provide storage capacity in several configurations. The 5350 compute node does not provide any storage. The 5U84 storage shelves provide storage capacity for the appliance system. You must have a Primary Storage Shelf that connects to the compute node. You can add up to three optional Expansion Storage Shelves for additional storage.

The Veritas 5350 high availability (HA) configuration includes two compute nodes, one required Primary Storage Shelf, and up to three optional Expansion Storage Shelves.

The Veritas 5350 Appliance supports the following software:

  • NetBackup Appliance software release 4.0 (revised) and above

    Note:

    This model uses a revised version of software release 4.0. This revised software version contains specific support for the 5350 hardware and the related software functionality that is not included in the previous 4.0 release. The minimum supported software version for the 5350 appliance is the revised 4.0 version that is shipped with each unit. If a re-image is ever necessary, you must use the revised 4.0 software version

  • Flex Appliance release 2.0.1 and above

Before you install the hardware, refer to the following section for important details about the dimensions of the hardware.

See Dimensions and determining rack locations.

The compute node is two rack units (2RU) high.

Each storage shelf is 5RU high and contains 2 drawers with 42 disk drive slots per drawer.

The rear of the Primary shelf includes two redundant RAID controller I/O modules. The Expansion shelves contain two I/O modules for connectivity to the Primary shelf and to other Expansion shelves. Half capacity storage shelves are also available for the 5350 appliances.

Refer to the Veritas 5350 Product Description at the following site for details about usable storage capacity.

Veritas Appliance documentation

Compute node and storage shelf power requirements

With the required 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf, the compute node operates at 220 VAC at 3.1 A with C13 and C14 connectors.