Veritas™ 5260 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5260
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance drives
    3. About the 5260 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
      3.  
        About the integrated BMC beep codes
    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. 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 storage shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. 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 Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    6.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  5. 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 storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth storage shelf to an appliance
  6. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    3. Recabling to connect additional 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
  7. Appendix C. 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
  8.  
    Index

Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance

Note:

The cables in the following diagrams are shown in different colors for demonstration purposes only. The actual cables are black.

Note:

The orientation of the blue tabs on the ends of the SAS-3 cables is important.

In the appliance, the blue tabs on each SAS-3 connector must face down.

In the storage shelves, the blue tabs in the SAS-3 connectors should point to the 12 Gb/s SAS label near each port. The blue tabs on the SAS-3 connectors inserted into the top row must face down. The blue tabs of the connectors inserted into the bottom row must face up.

To connect two storage shelves to the appliance

  1. Connect a SAS-3 cable to the left RAID port in the appliance.
  2. Connect the other end of this cable to port A in the top I/O module of the storage shelf.
  3. Connect another SAS-3 cable to port B in the top I/O module of the first storage shelf. Connect the other end of this cable to port A in the top I/O module in the second storage shelf.
  4. In the bottom I/O module in the second shelf, connect a SAS-3 cable to port B.
  5. In the bottom I/O module of the first shelf, connect the other end of the cable to port A.
  6. In the bottom I/O module of the second shelf, connect another SAS-3 cable to port A.
  7. Connect the other end of this cable to the right port in the RAID card in the appliance.

Next, connect network and power cables. Turn on the storage shelves and the appliance per the required sequence. Verify that all units function correctly.

See Connecting the network cables.

See Connecting the power cords.

See Turning on the hardware and verifying operation.