Veritas™ 5350 Appliance Product Description Guide
- About the Veritas 5350 Appliance
- About the Veritas 5350 Appliance
- Features and components of the appliance
- Locating the appliance serial number
- Compute node disk drive configurations
- About the compute node front panel USB port
- About the compute node control panel
- About the compute node rear panel
- Appliance network interface card port assignments
- Veritas 5350 Appliance I/O configuration options
- Available PCIe-based I/O configurations
- Total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
- Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5350 Appliance installations
- RSP3GD016J storage adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
- QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter
- Intel Storage Adapter RS3P4GF016J
- Broadcom P225p 10/25Gb PCIe Ethernet card
- About the Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelves
- About Veritas 5350 Appliance storage shelves
- About the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf rear components
- Veritas 5350 Appliance and 5U84 Storage Shelf cables
- Appendix A. Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol standards, and Compliance standards
- Veritas 5350 compute node technical specifications
- Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelf technical specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Protocol standards
- Regulatory, compliance, and certification information
- Product regulatory compliance
- Country approvals
- Product safety compliance
- Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance
- Product environmental compliance
Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf RAID controllers
The Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf uses dual, hot swappable SAS-3 RAID controllers. These controllers create and manage the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf disk drive RAID sets that contain backed up data. They also create and manage the RAID sets on 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves when those are attached to the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf.
The SAS-3 RAID controllers run RAID level 6 on the storage shelf. RAID 6 offers the highest level of data protection. It allows simultaneous write operations, while also allocating two sets of parity data across the drives that comprise the RAID 6 array.
The SAS-3 RAID controllers also provides an additional SAS-3 port. The SAS-3 port enables data to flow at SAS-3 data transfer rates between the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and the first optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf.
The following figure and table provides component details for the Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf SAS-3 RAID controller modules.
Table: Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf SAS-3 RAID Controller components
Number | Component |
|---|---|
1 | Expansion SAS port |
2 | Ethernet port Note: Veritas does not use or support the Ethernet port. |
3 | USB port |
4 | Serial ports (Service only) |
5 | Indicator LEDs |
6 | SAS-3 RAID ports - connects to the 5350 Appliance compute nodes |
7 | Activity LEDs |
8 | Expansion SAS port Status |
Table: Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf SAS-3 RAID Controller indicator LED details
LED | Description | Definition |
|---|---|---|
1 | Host 12Gb SAS-3 Link Status/Link Activity | Off - No link detected. Green- The port is connected and the link is up. Amber - Partial link exists (one or more lanes are down) Blinking green or amber- The link has I/O activity. |
2 | OK | Off - A controller issue has been detected, or the controller is turned off. Blinking green - The system is starting. Green - The controller is operating normally. |
3 | Fault | Off - The controller is operating normally. Amber - A controller fault has been detected or a service action is required. Blinking amber - Hardware-controller power on error, or a cache flush or restore error. |
4 | OK to Remove | Off - The controller is not prepared for removal. Blue - The controller is prepared for removal. |
5 | Identify | White - The controller is being identified. |
6 | Cache Status | Off - In a working controller, the cache is clean (contains no unwritten data). This is an occasional condition that occurs while the system is booting. Green - The cache is dirty (contains unwritten data) and the operation is normal. The unwritten information can be the log data or the debug data that remains in the cache. By itself, a Green cache status LED does not indicate that any user data is at risk or that any action is necessary. Blinking Green - A Compact Flash flush or a cache self-refresh is in progress, indicating cache activity. |
7 | Network Port Link Activity Status * | Off - The Ethernet link is not established, or the link is down. Green - The Ethernet link is up (applies to all negotiated link speeds). |
8 | Network Port Link Speed * | Off - The link is up at 10/100base-T negotiated speeds. Amber - The link is up and negotiated at 1000base-T speed. |
9 | SAS-3 Expansion Port Status | Off - The port is empty or the link is down. Green - The port is connected and the link is up. |
* When port is down, both LEDs are off | ||