Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Overview
- Preparing for hardware installation
- Tools
- Hardware installation flow
- 3U16 storage shelf weights and dimensions
- Rack guidelines
- Power supply overview
- Electrical safety
- Heat dissipation
- Checking the shipping packages
- Removing the protective film from the 3U16 storage shelf
- Locating hardware serial numbers
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
- Installing an appliance and 3U16 storage shelves into racks
- Cables
- Verifying hardware operation and configuring IPMI
- Appendix A. Adding 3U16 storage shelves to an operational NetBackup 5230 Appliance
- About adding 3U16 storage shelves to an operational appliance
- Shutting down the appliance
- Preparing the appliance to install the additional hardware
- Installing the additional memory
- Installing the additional Maintenance-Free Backup Unit (MFBU)
- Installing the external RAID controller card
- Removing the protective film from the storage shelf
- Installing 3U16 storage shelves into the rack
- Connecting the 3U16 shelves to an appliance or to other 3U16 shelves
- Connecting the 3U16 storage shelf and appliance power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Appendix B. Adding 2U12 storage shelves to an operational NetBackup 5230 Appliance
- About adding 2U12 storage shelves to an operational appliance
- Shutting down the appliance
- Preparing the appliance to install the additional hardware
- Installing the additional memory
- Installing the additional Maintenance Free Backup Unit (MFBU)
- Installing the external RAID controller card
- Installing 2U12 storage shelves into the rack
- Connecting the 2U12 shelves to an appliance or other storage shelves
- Connecting the 2U12 storage shelf and appliance power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Appendix C. Adding new disk space to the appliance configuration
About adding 3U16 storage shelves to an operational appliance
The NetBackup 5230 Appliance supports up to four storage shelves.
The following scenarios define the supported and unsupported configurations.
You can add up to four 3U16 shelves to a standalone NetBackup 5230 Appliance that has no storage shelves attached.
You can add 2U12 storage shelves to an NetBackup 5230 Appliance that already has at least one 3U16 shelf for a total of four shelves. In doing so, you must connect the 2U12 storage shelf to the last daisy-chained 3U16 storage shelf that is connected to the appliance.
For example, NetBackup 5230 Appliance + 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf + 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf + 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf + 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf.
In addition, attaching a 2U12 storage shelf to a 3U16 storage shelf requires a SAS3-to-SAS2 cable to connect the shelves. Finally, the SAS3 data transfer rate of the 2U12 storage shelf drops to match the SAS2 data transfer rate of the 3U16 storage shelf.
You cannot add additional storage shelves to an NetBackup 5230 Appliance that already has four connected shelves.
Note:
You can add storage shelves to a functional system without turning off the power. A NetBackup 5230 Appliance that does not have any attached storage shelves requires the installation of additional hardware components to the inside of the appliance. All work that is performed inside the chassis must be performed with the power turned off.
A NetBackup 5230 Appliance that does not have storage shelves needs additional components to support the new storage shelves. The components in the NetBackup Expansion Storage Kit must be installed into the appliance. The appliance must be turned off during the installation.
Caution:
Veritas service technicians must perform all tasks that involve the inside of the appliance chassis.
Note:
When you add an additional storage shelf to an operational appliance, Veritas recommends that you schedule this task during low system activity.
The Expansion Storage Kit contains the following components.
One external RAID controller PCIe card
Eight, 8Gb, Dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs)
One Maintenance Free super-cap Backup Module (MFBU) Kit
The procedures in this appendix explain the following tasks.
Turning off the appliance and removing it from the rack
Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components into the appliance
Installing one or more storage shelves into a rack
Connecting the appliance to the storage shelves
Connecting the storage shelf power cords
Turning on the storage shelves and verifying operation
Turning on the appliance and verifying operation
These tasks must be performed in the order that is provided in this appendix.