Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- About the appliance and the storage shelves
- Compute node drives
- About the 5360 Appliance control panel
- Compute node rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
- 5U84 storage shelf control panel
- 5U84 storage shelf rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
- 5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
- Cables and connectors
- About IPMI configuration
- Preinstallation requirements
- Customer-provided environment and supplies
- Appliance shipping container contents
- Storage shelf shipping container contents
- Dimensions and determining rack locations
- Best practices for rack installation
- Storage shelf rack requirements
- Heat dissipation
- Cable length verification
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
- Hardware installation procedures
- Overview
- Installing a storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing the compute node rack rails
- Installing the compute node into a rack
- Connecting the hardware to one compute node
- Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
- Connecting Flex nodes to the network
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
- Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
- Appendix A. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion shelves
- Appendix B. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion shelf
- Overview
- Turning off the existing hardware
- Installation instructions
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
- Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
Each storage shelf includes 2 drawers with 42 disk drive slots each for a total of 84 slots. The following diagrams describe the disk layout for the top drawer and the bottom drawer. The slot numbers start at the front, left of the drawer. Slot numbers end in the last row at the right rear of the drawer.
The following diagrams show all of the slots in each drawer. The photographs show the number of the first slot in each drawer.
The top drawer contains slots 0 through 41.
The bottom drawer contains slots 42 through 83.
Disk drives are not preconfigured before they ship from the factory. During the initial installation any drive can be placed into any slot for a full storage shelf. After the compute nodes and storage shelves are configured and operational, you cannot rearrange the drives.
The compute nodes support storage shelves with half of the total usable capacity. This configuration includes 45 disk drives and 39 blank carriers. You receive one container of 42 disk drives and another container of 3 drives and 39 blanks. Install these disk drives into the storage shelf drawers.
Refer to the following link for the disk drive layout for a half capacity storage shelf.
See Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf.
Each disk drive is encased in a carrier. A label on the top of the carrier identifies the storage capacity of the disk that is inside the carrier.
A blank carrier is very similar to a disk drive carrier. The upper latch assembly is the same. A label identifies the carrier as a blank instead of storage capacity.
