Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5250
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance disk drives
    3. About the 5250 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    4.  
      Appliance rear panel
    5.  
      Storage shelf disk drives
    6.  
      Storage shelf control panel
    7.  
      Storage shelf rear panel
    8.  
      Cables
    9.  
      About IPMI configuration
    10.  
      Product documentation
  2. Preinstallation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Appliance shipping container contents
    3.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    4.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    5.  
      Determining rack locations
    6.  
      Storage shelf rack requirements
    7.  
      Heat dissipation
    8.  
      Verifying SAS-3 cable length
    9.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. S Series Appliance installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Attaching the storage shelf bezel
    4.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    5.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    6.  
      Understanding appliance and S Series Storage Shelf connections
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    8.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. D Series Appliance installation procedures
    1.  
      Installing the storage shelf rack rails
    2.  
      Installing the storage shelf into a rack
    3.  
      Installing the appliance rack rails
    4.  
      Installing the appliance into a rack
    5.  
      Understanding appliance and D Series Storage Shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  5. Next steps after installation
    1.  
      Connecting the network cables
    2.  
      Connecting the power cords
    3.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    4.  
      Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    6.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    7.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  6. Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Preparing the appliance
    3.  
      Removing the appliance cover
    4.  
      Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
    5.  
      Replacing the appliance cover
    6. Connecting the S Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four S Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth S Series storage shelf to an appliance
    7. Connecting the D Series storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four D Series storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth D Series storage shelf to an appliance
  7. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    3.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    4.  
      Installing S Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    5. Recabling to connect additional S Series storage shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelves
      3.  
        Connecting a storage shelf to an appliance that already has three operating shelves
    6.  
      Installing D Series storage shelves to an appliance that has at least one storage shelf
    7. Recabling to connect additional D Series storage shelves
      1.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has one operating shelf
      2.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has two operating shelf
      3.  
        Connecting additional shelves to an appliance that already has three operating shelf
  8. Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new NetBackup Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
    2.  
      Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
  9. Appendix D. 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
  10.  
    Index

Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Flex Appliance Console

Follow the steps in this section to add storage disk space to an appliance after physically adding one or more Expansion Shelves.

Note:

When you configure additional disk space, any current backup operations are stopped until the process is complete. Veritas recommends that you do not start any backup operations before starting this procedure.

To configure additional disk space

  1. Turn on the new shelf or shelves.

    Wait approximately five minutes for the shelves to completely turn on.

  2. Turn on the appliance node.

    See Turning on the hardware and verifying operation.

  3. Once the node has turned on, log in to the Flex Appliance Shell and run the system restart command.
  4. Sign in to the Flex Appliance Console.
  5. Go to the System topology page.
  6. Click on Add storage.
  7. A confirmation window appears. Click Yes.

    You can monitor the progress from the Activity Monitor.

    Note:

    In a multi-node appliance, two tasks are shown in the Activity Monitor.

    A task to add new storage displays for the first node, and a task to scan new storage displays for the second node. The task for the second node runs after the first node's tasks are complete.

If you want to resize instances, refer to the Resizing instance storage section in the Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide.