Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5360
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Compute node drives
    3. About the 5360 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.  
      Compute node rear 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 Flex nodes to the network
    11.  
      Connecting the power cords
    12.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    13.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    14.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    15.  
      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 Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Flex Appliance Console

Connecting three Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf

Two of the three Expansion Shelves connect to the Primary Shelf but not directly to the compute node.

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 as shown in the diagram.

In the storage shelves, the blue tabs in the SAS-3 connectors should point to the 12 Gb/s SAS label near each port.

To connect three Expansion Shelves

  1. Verify that all compute nodes and the Primary Shelf are off and that the power cords are unplugged.

    Do not remove the cables between the compute nodes and the Primary Shelf.

  2. Obtain the two SAS-3 cables that ship with each Expansion Shelf.
  3. Identify the single SAS-3 port on the right side of each controller module in the Primary Shelf.
  4. Identify ports A and C in each I/O module in the Expansion Shelf. Port B is not available for use.

  5. Connect the cables as follows:

    • Connect one cable to each of the SAS-3 ports on the right of each controller module on the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect the left cable to port A in the left I/O module on the closest Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect the right cable from the Primary Shelf to port A in the right I/O module in the farthest Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect one end of a new cable to port C in the left module of the first Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect one end of another cable to port A on the right I/O module of the first Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of that cable to port C in the right I/O module of the second Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect one end of another cable to port C on the left I/O module of the second Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of that cable to port A in the left I/O module of the third Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect one end of another cable to port A on the right I/O module of the second Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of that cable to port C in the right I/O module of the third Expansion Shelf.

  6. Verify the final cable configuration.
  7. Connect the power cords of all devices as described in this section.

    See Connecting the power cords.

  8. Turn on the devices in the proper sequence as described in this section.

    See Turning on the hardware and verifying operation.

  9. Add the new disk space with the instructions in one of these sections.

    See Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Flex Appliance Console.