Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- About the appliance and the storage shelves
- Compute node drives
- About the 5360 Appliance control panel
- Compute node rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
- 5U84 storage shelf control panel
- 5U84 storage shelf rear panel
- 5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
- 5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
- Cables and connectors
- About IPMI configuration
- Preinstallation requirements
- Customer-provided environment and supplies
- Appliance shipping container contents
- Storage shelf shipping container contents
- Dimensions and determining rack locations
- Best practices for rack installation
- Storage shelf rack requirements
- Heat dissipation
- Cable length verification
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
- Hardware installation procedures
- Overview
- Installing a storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
- Installing the compute node rack rails
- Installing the compute node into a rack
- Connecting the hardware to one compute node
- Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
- Connecting Flex nodes to the network
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
- Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
- Appendix A. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion shelves
- Appendix B. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion shelf
- Overview
- Turning off the existing hardware
- Installation instructions
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
- Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
- Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
The 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and the Expansion Storage Shelf use 4-TB or 8-TB disk drives. You cannot mix the two disk storage capacities in one shelf. You can have different capacities in separate shelves.
You can purchase a storage shelf that provides half of the total possible storage capacity.
See Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf.
Note:
It is helpful to have two people install the disks. Both people can move the latches to unlock the carriers. One person can remove the disks from the shipping box and hand them to the other person. The first person should orient the disk drives in the direction of installation. The second person installs the disks. Both people can press the carriers down and lock them forward. Less than 5 minutes are required to fill an entire drawer.
To install the disk drives into the storage shelf slots
- Examine the two anti-tamper locks on the front of each drawer.
The red arrows in the locks point to the center of the drawer if the locks are not engaged.
- If the locks are engaged, use a Torx T20 screwdriver to rotate the locks counterclockwise.
- Pull the bottom drawer forward as far as possible without damaging the hardware. Press the drawer latches (both sides of the drawer) in towards the middle of the drawer in order to open the drawer.
- Locate and open the box or boxes that contain the storage shelf hard disk drives in their Disk Drive In Carrier (DDIC) units.
Note:
Each disk drive is preinstalled in a carrier.
- Before removing the disk drives from a shipping box, prepare each disk drive carrier for drawer installation.
- After unlocking all of the carriers, install each carrier into the bottom drawer.
Do the following for each of the carriers that you want to install:
Insert the carrier into one slot and push it down until it stops.
Place one thumb on each of the two pads that are shown by the red arrows.
Push the carrier forward towards the rear of the slot, towards the back of the drawer.
The release latch clicks into place.
Repeat the process for each carrier in the bottom drawer of the shelf.
- Verify that all disks are properly seated in the slots.
- Slide the bottom drawer into the storage shelf. Press the two drawer release buttons located (one per side) on the side of the drawer to close the drawer until the latches click.
- Engage the anti-tamper locks on the top drawer as needed.
- Pull the top drawer forward as far as possible without damaging the hardware.
- Install the disk drive carriers into the top storage shelf drawer.
- Slide the top drawer into the shelf by pressing the two drawer release buttons located (one per side) on the side of the drawer to close the drawer until the latches click.
- Engage the anti-tamper locks as needed.
