Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Overview
- Preparing for hardware installation
- Tools
- Hardware installation flow
- 3U16 storage shelf weights and dimensions
- Rack guidelines
- Power supply overview
- Electrical safety
- Heat dissipation
- Checking the shipping packages
- Removing the protective film from the 3U16 storage shelf
- Locating hardware serial numbers
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
- Installing an appliance and 3U16 storage shelves into racks
- Cables
- Verifying hardware operation and configuring IPMI
- Appendix A. Adding 3U16 storage shelves to an operational NetBackup 5230 Appliance
- About adding 3U16 storage shelves to an operational appliance
- Shutting down the appliance
- Preparing the appliance to install the additional hardware
- Installing the additional memory
- Installing the additional Maintenance-Free Backup Unit (MFBU)
- Installing the external RAID controller card
- Removing the protective film from the storage shelf
- Installing 3U16 storage shelves into the rack
- Connecting the 3U16 shelves to an appliance or to other 3U16 shelves
- Connecting the 3U16 storage shelf and appliance power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Appendix B. Adding 2U12 storage shelves to an operational NetBackup 5230 Appliance
- About adding 2U12 storage shelves to an operational appliance
- Shutting down the appliance
- Preparing the appliance to install the additional hardware
- Installing the additional memory
- Installing the additional Maintenance Free Backup Unit (MFBU)
- Installing the external RAID controller card
- Installing 2U12 storage shelves into the rack
- Connecting the 2U12 shelves to an appliance or other storage shelves
- Connecting the 2U12 storage shelf and appliance power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Appendix C. Adding new disk space to the appliance configuration
Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
The following procedure describes how to add new storage shelf disk space to a NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
To add new storage shelf disk space to a NetBackup appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Use PuTTY to start an SSH session to access the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
Note:
You can also connect a laptop, keyboard and monitor, or KVM to the appliance to access the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
- Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu. The Main_Menu prompt appears.
- Go to the Monitor view as follows:
Type Monitor and press Enter.
- Type Hardware ShowHealth and press Enter. Verify that the new storage devices appear. If the new storage devices do not appear, check the cable connections and make sure that the power is on.
- At the prompt, type return to return to the Main menu.
- Perform a scan as follows:
At the Main_Menu prompt, enter Manage and press Enter.
Enter Storage and press Enter.
Enter Scan and press Enter.
The scan takes a couple of minutes to complete.
- Navigate to the Storage view.
From the Storage menu, enter Add and press Enter. It displays the disks that are in a New Available state and can be added. Copy a disk ID that is displayed.
- At the prompt, enter add < disk ID > and press Enter. < disk ID > is the disk ID that you copied. Repeat step 7 and 8 to add each disk ID that is displayed.
- View the available storage space as follows:
Navigate to the Storage menu.
At the prompt, enter Show Disk and press Enter. The status of the newly added disks is displayed as In Use and space in the Unallocated column is the disk space available for the new disk.