Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Product Description Guide

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Platform: Veritas 5250
  1. About the Veritas 5250 Appliance
    1.  
      Veritas 5250 Appliance overview
    2.  
      Features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance
    3.  
      Locating the appliance serial number
    4. Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
      1.  
        About the disk drive LEDs
    5.  
      About the Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel USB port
    6. About the 5250 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    7.  
      About the 5250 Appliance rear panel
    8. Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options
      1.  
        Veritas 5250 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
      2.  
        Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5250 Appliance installations
      3.  
        QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter
      4.  
        Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
      5.  
        Broadcom P225p 10/25Gb PCIe Ethernet card
      6.  
        Intel X550-T2 dual-port 10Gb Ethernet card
      7.  
        Intel RAID Adapter RS3P4MF088F
  2. Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf
    1.  
      Storage Shelf overview
    2.  
      Usable appliance storage capacities
    3. Components of the S Series Storage Shelf
      1.  
        S Series Storage Shelf front panel components
      2.  
        S Series Storage Shelf control panel
      3.  
        S Series Storage Shelf rear components
      4.  
        S Series Storage Shelf I/O modules
      5.  
        S Series I/O module Status LED location and conditions
      6.  
        S Series I/O module SAS Activity LED location and conditions
      7.  
        S Series Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules
      8.  
        S Series Power Cooling Module LEDs
    4. Components of the D Series Storage Shelf
      1.  
        D Series Storage Shelf front panel components
      2.  
        D Series Storage Shelf control panel
      3.  
        D Series Storage Shelf rear components
      4.  
        D Series Power indicator codes
  3. Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables
    1.  
      Power cables
    2.  
      Network cable
    3.  
      Multi-Mode fiber optic cable
    4.  
      Twinaxial copper cables
    5.  
      SAS-3 cable
  4. Appendix A. Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol standards, and Compliance standards
    1.  
      Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications
    2.  
      Veritas S Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
    3.  
      Veritas D Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
    4.  
      Environmental specifications
    5.  
      Protocol standards
    6.  
      Regulatory, compliance, and certification information
    7.  
      Product regulatory compliance
    8.  
      Country approvals
    9.  
      Product safety compliance
    10.  
      Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance
    11.  
      Product environmental compliance
  5.  
    Index

Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options

The rear panel of the Veritas 5250 Appliance contains three PCIe riser card assemblies. PCIe riser card assemblies 1 and 2 each support three standard PCIe cards, while PCIe riser card assembly 3 supports two low profile PCIe cards. The slots are labeled 1 to 8. Slots 1, 2, and 3 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 2. Slots 4, 5, and 6 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 1, while slots 7 and 8 are located in PCIe riser card assembly 3.

Figure: Rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot number assignments

Rear panel riser assembly locations and PCIe slot number assignments

The Veritas 5250 Appliance supports multiple PCIe-based I/O configuration options. The following table shows the different I/O configuration options that are available.

Table: Available Veritas 5250 Appliance PCIe-based I/O configuration options

I/O configuration option

Slot

1 *

Slot

2

Slot

3

Slot

4

Slot

5

Slot

6

Slot

7

Slot

8

A

-

-

10/25 GbE NIC

-

-

-

-

-

B

-

-

10/25 GbE NIC

-

-

16 Gb FC HBA

-

-

C

-

10/25 GbE NIC

10/25 GbE NIC

10/25 GbE NIC

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

-

-

D

-

16 Gb FC HBA

10/25 GbE NIC

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

-

-

E

-

10/25 GbE NIC

10/25 GbE NIC

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

-

-

F

-

10 GbT NIC

10 GbT NIC

10 GbT NIC

16 Gb FC HBA

16 Gb FC HBA

-

-

* Slot 1 contains a factory installed PCIe RAID controller.

Note:

The Flex 5250 Model F has 3 x 10 GbT (Standard CAT6a cabling with RJ45 connectors) network cards.

Figure: Flex 5250 Appliance Model A

Flex 5250 Appliance Model A

Figure: Flex 5250 Appliance Model B

Flex 5250 Appliance Model B

Figure: Flex 5250 Appliance Model C

Flex 5250 Appliance Model C

Figure: Flex 5250 Appliance Model D

Flex 5250 Appliance Model D

Figure: Flex 5250 Appliance Model E

Flex 5250 Appliance Model E