Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Product Description Guide
- About the Veritas 5250 Appliance
- Veritas 5250 Appliance overview
- Features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance
- Locating the appliance serial number
- Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
- About the Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel USB port
- About the 5250 Appliance control panel
- About the 5250 Appliance rear panel
- Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options
- Veritas 5250 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
- Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5250 Appliance installations
- QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter
- Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
- Broadcom P225p 10/25Gb PCIe Ethernet card
- Intel X550-T2 dual-port 10Gb Ethernet card
- Intel RAID Adapter RS3P4MF088F
- Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf
- Storage Shelf overview
- Usable appliance storage capacities
- Components of the S Series Storage Shelf
- S Series Storage Shelf front panel components
- S Series Storage Shelf control panel
- S Series Storage Shelf rear components
- S Series Storage Shelf I/O modules
- S Series I/O module Status LED location and conditions
- S Series I/O module SAS Activity LED location and conditions
- S Series Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules
- S Series Power Cooling Module LEDs
- Components of the D Series Storage Shelf
- Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables
- Appendix A. Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol standards, and Compliance standards
- Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications
- Veritas S Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
- Veritas D Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Protocol standards
- Regulatory, compliance, and certification information
- Product regulatory compliance
- Country approvals
- Product safety compliance
- Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance
- Product environmental compliance
- Index
Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
The Veritas 5250 Appliance contains 12 SAS hard disk drives, which can be accessed from the appliance's front panel. An embedded RAID controller on the appliance's mainboard is used to configure four of the 12 disks into two RAID1 mirrored volumes. These volumes are labeled Volume0 and Volume1.
The disk drives that are located in slot 0 and slot 1 are configured as the RAID1, VOLUME0 device. These disk drives contain the appliance operating system and the NetBackup/Flex application. You can hot-swap one of these disk drives at a time; however, you cannot operate the appliance if both disk drives are removed.
The disk drives in slot 2 and slot 3 are configured as the RAID1, VOLUME1 device. These disk drives store all of the log files.
The disk drives in slots 4 through 10 store user data. They are configured as a RAID 6 array, which uses block-level striping with two parity blocks across each of the disk drives in the volume.
The appliance uses the disk drive that is located in slot 11 as a hot-spare disk. If one of the disk drives fails in slots 4 through 10, the appliance automatically initiates a RAID 6 rebuild operation. It rebuilds the RAID 6 array by using the hot-spare disk drive in slot 11. After you replace the failed disk drive, the appliance then copies the information from the disk drive in slot 11 to the new replacement disk. When the copy operation finishes, the disk drive in slot 11 again becomes the hot-spare disk.
Note:
The hot-spare drive size depends on the data drive size.
Warning:
The disk drives are pre-formatted before the appliance is shipped. Do not rearrange the disks from their original locations.
Table: Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
Slot | RAID Configuration | Disk drive size | Disk drive role | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0, 1 | RAID 1 | 1TB or 2TB | Boot / swap | |||
2, 3 | RAID 1 | 1TB or 2TB | Log files | |||
4 - 10 | RAID 6 | 2TB (Available internal storage is 9.1TiB) 8TB (Available internal storage is 36.4TiB) | User data | |||
11 | RAID 6 | 2TB 8TB | Hot-spare | |||