Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5250
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3. About the 5250 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. S Series Appliance installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    4.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    5.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and S Series Storage Shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. D Series Appliance installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Understanding appliance and D Series Storage Shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  5. Next steps after installation
    1.  
      Connecting the network cables
    2.  
      Connecting the power cords
    3.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    4.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    7.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  6. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Replacing the appliance cover
    6. Connecting the S Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
    7. Connecting the D Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
  7. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing S Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional S Series storage shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
    6.  
      Installing D Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    7. Recabling to connect additional D Series storage shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelf
      3.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has three operating shelf
  8. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new NetBackup Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  9. 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
  10.  
    Index

About the System Status LED states

The System Status LED is a bi-color (Green/Amber) indicator that shows the current health of the system. The appliance provides two locations for this feature. The first location is on the Front Control Panel, while the second location is on the back edge of the server board.

Figure: System Status LED control panel location

System Status LED control panel location

The following table provides a description of each LED state.

Table: System Status LED states

Color

State

Criticality

Description

No color

Off - The system is not operating.

Not ready

  • System power is off (AC and/or DC)

  • System is in EuP Lot6 Off Mode

  • System is in S5 Soft-Off State

Green

Solid on (SO)

Healthy

Indicates that the system is running (in S0 State) and its status is "Healthy". The system is not exhibiting any errors. AC power is present and BMC has booted and manageability functionality is up and running.

Green

~1 Hz blink

Degraded

The system is operating in a degraded state although still functional.

or

The system is operating in a redundant state but with an impending failure warning.

System degraded:

  • Redundant loss, such as power supply or fan. Applies only if the associated platform sub-system has redundancy capabilities.

  • Fan warning or failure when the number of fully operational fans is more than minimum number needed to cool the system.

  • Non-critical threshold crossed: Temperature (including HSBP temp), voltage, input power to power supply, output current for main power rail from power supply and Processor Thermal Control (Therm Ctrl) sensors.

  • Power supply predictive failure occurred while redundant power supply configuration was present.

  • Unable to use all of the installed memory (one or more DIMMs failed/disabled but functional memory remains available).

  • Battery failure

  • BMC executing in uBoot. (Indicated by Chassis ID blinking at 3Hz). System in degraded state (no manageability). BMC uBoot is running but has not transferred control to the BMC Linux. Server will be in this state 6-8 seconds after BMC reset while it pulls the Linux image into flash.

Green

~1 Hz blink

Degraded (continued)

System degraded (continued):

  • BMC booting Linux. (Indicated by Chassis ID solid ON). System in degraded state (no manageability). Control has been passed from BMC uBoot to BMC Linux itself. It will be in this state for 10-20 seconds.

  • BMC Watchdog has reset the BMC.

  • Power unit sensor offset for configuration error is asserted.

  • Hard disk drive HSC is off-line or degraded.

Amber

~1 Hz blink

Non-critical

The system is operating in a degraded state with an impending failure warning. However, the system is still functioning.

Non-fatal, although the system is likely to fail due to the following issues:

  • Critical threshold crossed - Voltage, temperature (including HSBP temp), input power to power supply, output current for main power rail from power supply and PROCHOT (Therm Ctrl) sensors.

  • VRD Hot asserted

  • Minimum number of fans to cool the system not present or failed

  • Hard drive fault

  • Power Unit Redundancy sensor - Insufficient resources offset (indicates not enough power supplies present)

  • Correctable memory error threshold has been reached for a failing DIMM when the system is operating in a non-redundant mode.

Amber

Solid on

Critical, non-recoverable - System is halted

Fatal alarm - system has failed or shutdown:

  • CPU CATERR signal asserted

  • MSID mismatch detected (CATERR also asserts for this case)

  • CPU1 is missing

  • CPU Thermal Trip

  • No power - power fault

  • DIMM failure when there is only one DIMM present; no other good DIMM memory present

  • Runtime memory uncorrectable error in non-redundant mode.

Amber

Solid on

Critical, non-recoverable - System is halted

  • Uncorrectable Runtime memory error in non-redundant mode

  • DIMM Thermal Trip or equivalent

  • CPU ERR2 signal is asserted

  • BMC/Video memory test failed (Chassis ID shows blue/solid-on for this condition)

  • SBB Thermal Trip or equivalent

  • 240VA fault

  • Both uBoot BMC FW images are bad (Chassis ID shows blue/solid-on for this condition)

  • Fatal Error in processor initialization:

    • Processor family not identical

    • Processor model not identical

    • Processor core/thread counts not identical

    • Processor cache size not identical

    • Unable to synchronize processor frequency

    • Unable to synchronize QPI link frequency