Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5250
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3. About the 5250 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    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. S Series Appliance installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    4.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    5.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and S Series Storage Shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. D Series Appliance 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 D Series Storage Shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  5. 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 IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    7.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  6. 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 S Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
    7. Connecting the D Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
  7. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing S Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional S Series 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 shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
    6.  
      Installing D Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    7. Recabling to connect additional D Series 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
  8. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new NetBackup Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  9. Appendix D. 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
  10.  
    Index

Connecting three S Series 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 SAS-3 cable blue tab should align with the white SAS-3 cable label on the I/O module.

To connect three storage shelves to an appliance

  1. Connect a SAS-3 cable to the left RAID port in the appliance.

    Be sure that the blue tab on the connector in the appliance port points down.

  2. Connect the other end of this cable to port A in the top I/O module of the storage shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS cable in port A should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS label when connected.

  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 the cable to port A in the top I/O module in the second storage shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  4. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port B of the top I/O module in the second shelf. Connect the other end of the cable to port A in the top I/O module in the third shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  5. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port A of the bottom I/O module in the third shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  6. Connect the other end of the cable to the right port in the appliance RAID PCIe card.

    Be sure that the blue tab on the connector in port A points up. The blue tab in the appliance port connector should point down

  7. Connect a SAS-3 cable from port B of the bottom I/O module in the third shelf to port A in the bottom I/O module in the second shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

  8. Connect a SAS-3 cable to port B of the bottom I/O module in the second shelf. Connect the other end of the cable to port A on the bottom I/O module in the first shelf.

    The blue tab on the SAS-3 cable should be on the same side of the cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.

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