Veritas™ 5360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
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

Connecting the hardware to one compute node

This section provides cabling information for a Veritas 5360 Appliance that includes one compute node, one Primary Storage Shelf, and up to three Expansion Storage Shelves.

Each compute node is connected to the Primary Storage Shelf with four SAS-3 cables.

The compute nodes connect to each other with two Ethernet cables.

Expansion Storage Shelves connect to the Primary Shelf and to other Expansion shelves with two SAS-3 cables.

The Primary Shelf has a single SAS-3 port on the left side of each RAID controller I/O module. This port connects to SAS-3 port A in the Expansion I/O modules.

Note:

The orientation of the blue tabs on the ends of the SAS-3 cables is important. In the appliance, the blue tabs on each SAS-3 connector must face as shown in the diagram.

In the storage shelves, the blue tabs in the SAS-3 connectors should point to the 12 Gb/s SAS label near each port.

Warning:

The hardware must be powered on in the expected order. Else, all the storage may not be seen by the appliance.

To connect a compute node to a Primary Shelf

  1. Obtain four SAS-3 cables for each compute node.
  2. Identify the SAS-3 ports in slot 3 and slot 7 of the compute node that is closest to the Primary Shelf.

    The ports in slot 7 are labeled 3, 2, 1, and 0 from left to right. The ports in slot 3 are labeled 0, 1, 2, and 3 from left to right.

  3. Identify the four SAS-3 ports in each Primary Shelf controller.

    The left-hand controller is labeled A and the right-hand controller is labeled B.

    The ports in each controller are labeled 3, 2, 1, and 0 from left to right.

    Note:

    The colors of the cables in the following diagrams are for demonstration purposes only.

  4. Connect the cables as follows:

    • Connect slot 3, Port 0 of the compute node to controller B, Port 1 on the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect slot 3, Port 1 of the compute node to controller A, Port 1 on the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect slot 7, Port 0 of the compute node to controller B, Port 0 on the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect slot 7, Port 1 of the compute node to controller A, Port 0 on the Primary Shelf.

Use the following procedure to connect Expansion Storage Shelves to the Primary Shelf.

If you do not have any Expansion shelves at this time, proceed to the following section to connect power cords to the hardware.

See Connecting the power cords.

To connect Expansion Storage Shelves to a Primary Shelf

  1. Do the following if you have one Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect one end of two SAS-3 cables to the SAS-3 port on the left hand side of each RAID controller in the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the SAS-3 cables to port A in each of the I/O modules in the Expansion Shelf.

      Note:

      The blue tab on the cable must face down in the Expansion Shelf.

  2. Do the following if you have two Expansion shelves.

    • Connect one end of the two SAS-3 cables to the SAS-3 port on the left hand side of each RAID controller in the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the SAS-3 cable in RAID controller A to port A in the nearest Expansion Shelf I/O module on the left side of the shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the SAS-3 cable in RAID controller B to port A in the right-hand I/O module in the lower Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port C in I/O module A of the upper Expansion Shelf to port A in I/O module A of the lower Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port A in I/O module B of the upper Expansion Shelf to port C in I/O module B of the lower Expansion Shelf.

  3. Do the following if you have three Expansion shelves.

    • Connect one end of the two SAS-3 cables to the SAS-3 port on the left hand side of each RAID controller in the Primary Shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the SAS-3 cable in RAID controller A to port A in the nearest Expansion Shelf I/O module on the left side of the shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the SAS-3 cable in RAID controller B to port A in the right-hand I/O module in the lowest Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port C in I/O module A of the upper Expansion Shelf to port A in I/O module A of the middle Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port A in I/O module B of the upper Expansion Shelf to port C in I/O module B of the middle Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port C in I/O module A of the middle Expansion Shelf to port A in I/O module A of the lowest Expansion Shelf.

    • Connect port A in I/O module B of the middle Expansion Shelf to port C in I/O module B of the lowest Expansion Shelf.