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

Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes

Installation procedures for a two-node or multi-node system is the same as for a single-node system except for the following:

  • The two nodes are connected to each other through the two far-right 1Gb Ethernet ports on the rear of the nodes.

  • Both nodes connect to the Primary Storage Shelf.

Note:

The colored cables are for demonstration purposes only. There is only one type of SAS3 cable.

Warning:

The hardware must be powered on in the expected order. Else, all the storage may not be seen by the appliance.

To connect a two-node appliance

  1. Identify the two ports on the lower right corner of both nodes.
  2. Connect Ethernet cables between the ports.
  3. Identify the SAS ports on the compute nodes.
  4. Identify the SAS ports on the Primary Storage Shelf.
  5. Connect the cables as follows:

    • On the compute node that is located closest to the Primary Storage Shelf, connect two SAS cables.

    • On the compute node that is located closest to the Primary Storage Shelf, connect two more SAS cables.

    • On the compute node that is located farthest from the Primary Storage Shelf, connect two SAS cables.

    • On the compute node that is located farthest from the Primary Storage Shelf connect two more SAS cables .

  6. If you have Expansion Storage Shelves, proceed to the following instructions.

    See “To connect Expansion Storage Shelves to a Primary shelf”.

    If you do not have Expansion shelves proceed to connect the power cords.

    See Connecting the power cords.

To connect Expansion Storage Shelves to a Primary shelf

  1. Obtain two SAS3 cables.
  2. Locate the SAS3 ports in the left-hand side of each controller in the Primary shelf.
  3. Locate SAS3 ports A and C in both I/O modules of the Expansion shelves.

    Port B is not used.

  4. IMPORTANT - Be sure that the blue tab on each SAS3 connector faces down. The RAID controller does not recognize an incorrectly inserted connector.
  5. If you have one Expansion shelf, connect it to the Primary shelf .
  6. If you have two Expansion shelves, connect them as shown.
  7. If you have three Expansion shelves connect them as shown.
  8. Proceed to the following section to connect power cords to the hardware.

    See Connecting the power cords.