Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Platform: Veritas 5360
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Compute node drives
    3. About the 5360 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
      3.  
        About the integrated BMC beep codes
    4.  
      Compute node rear panel
    5.  
      5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
    6.  
      5U84 storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      5U84 storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
    9.  
      5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
    10.  
      Cables and connectors
    11.  
      About IPMI configuration
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Dimensions and determining rack locations
    5.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Cable length verification
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Hardware installation procedures
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Installing a storage shelf
    3.  
      Installing disk drives into a full-capacity storage shelf
    4.  
      Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf
    5.  
      Installing disk drives into a half-capacity storage shelf
    6.  
      Installing the compute node rack rails
    7.  
      Installing the compute node into a rack
    8.  
      Connecting the hardware to one compute node
    9.  
      Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
    10.  
      Connecting Flex nodes to the network
    11.  
      Connecting the power cords
    12.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    13.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    14.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    15.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  4. Appendix A. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any Expansion shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to the Primary Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf
    6.  
      Connecting three Expansion Shelves to the Primary Shelf
  5. Appendix B. Adding Expansion Storage Shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one operating Expansion shelf
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Turning off the existing hardware
    3.  
      Installation instructions
    4.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    5.  
      Connecting two Expansion Shelves to a system that has one existing Expansion Shelf
    6.  
      Connecting one Expansion Shelf to a system that has two existing Expansion Shelves
  6. Appendix C. 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

Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface

The IPMI web interface is known as Veritas Remote Management interface. You can use Veritas Remote Management interface to log on to the Flex Appliance Shell.

Before you use the Remote Management interface, the following prerequisites must be met:

  • The Remote Management interface (IPMI port) must first be configured.

  • At least one power cable must be connected to a functioning power source.

  • At least one user must be enabled to use the LAN channel(s).

To access and use the IPMI web interface from a remote computer

  1. Log on to a remote computer in the network and open a supported Windows browser.
  2. Enter the remote management port IP address that is assigned to the remote management port. The following page appears:
  3. Enter your login information. The default user name is sysadmin. The default password is P@ssw0rd, where 0 is the number zero.

    Click Login.

  4. Click the Remote Control section located at the top of the page. The Remote Control section lets you remotely monitor and control the server.

    Do one of the following to launch the Appliance Shell:

    • Navigate to Remote Control> iKVM over HTML5.

      Click Launch iKVM over HTML5 to launch the Appliance shell. A new window opens that enables you to remotely monitor and control the appliance.

    • Click Remote Control > KVM/Console Redirection. Click Launch Console to launch the appliance shell menu.

      A JViewer application opens that enables you to remotely monitor and control the appliance. This application requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6.0 or later. Install Java. You can login to the JViewer application using the same user name and password from step 3

      Caution:

      Starting with Java 7 update 45, you may receive a security warning when you launch the KVM remote console from the appliance IPMI port. The warning states that you do not have proper permissions and prevents appliance access from the IPMI port. For information about how to resolve this issue, refer to the following document:

      https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100011121.html

  5. You can now access and log on to the Flex Appliance Shell.

    Enter the user name and password for the appliance.

    By default, the user name hostadmin has the password, P@ssw0rd where 0 is the number zero.

    Type "?" and then enter the "system" command to actually see the list of available commands.