Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Product Description Guide

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Platform: Veritas 5250
  1. About the Veritas 5250 Appliance
    1.  
      Veritas 5250 Appliance overview
    2.  
      Features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance
    3.  
      Locating the appliance serial number
    4. Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations
      1.  
        About the disk drive LEDs
    5.  
      About the Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel USB port
    6. About the 5250 Appliance control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    7.  
      About the 5250 Appliance rear panel
    8. Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options
      1.  
        Veritas 5250 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports
      2.  
        Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5250 Appliance installations
      3.  
        QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter
      4.  
        Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
      5.  
        Broadcom P225p 10/25Gb PCIe Ethernet card
      6.  
        Intel X550-T2 dual-port 10Gb Ethernet card
      7.  
        Intel RAID Adapter RS3P4MF088F
  2. Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf
    1.  
      Storage Shelf overview
    2.  
      Usable appliance storage capacities
    3. Components of the S Series Storage Shelf
      1.  
        S Series Storage Shelf front panel components
      2.  
        S Series Storage Shelf control panel
      3.  
        S Series Storage Shelf rear components
      4.  
        S Series Storage Shelf I/O modules
      5.  
        S Series I/O module Status LED location and conditions
      6.  
        S Series I/O module SAS Activity LED location and conditions
      7.  
        S Series Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules
      8.  
        S Series Power Cooling Module LEDs
    4. Components of the D Series Storage Shelf
      1.  
        D Series Storage Shelf front panel components
      2.  
        D Series Storage Shelf control panel
      3.  
        D Series Storage Shelf rear components
      4.  
        D Series Power indicator codes
  3. Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables
    1.  
      Power cables
    2.  
      Network cable
    3.  
      Multi-Mode fiber optic cable
    4.  
      Twinaxial copper cables
    5.  
      SAS-3 cable
  4. Appendix A. Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol standards, and Compliance standards
    1.  
      Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications
    2.  
      Veritas S Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
    3.  
      Veritas D Series 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
    4.  
      Environmental specifications
    5.  
      Protocol standards
    6.  
      Regulatory, compliance, and certification information
    7.  
      Product regulatory compliance
    8.  
      Country approvals
    9.  
      Product safety compliance
    10.  
      Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance
    11.  
      Product environmental compliance
  5.  
    Index

About the 5250 Appliance rear panel

The rear panel of the appliance has several access ports and other features, which are displayed in the following figures.

Figure: Veritas 5250 Appliance rear panel overview

Veritas 5250 Appliance rear panel overview

Table: Veritas 5250 Appliance rear panel features and connectors

Number

Function

1,2

Power Supply 1 and Power Supply 2 - Dual, redundant, and hot-swappable power supply modules

3

DB-15 VGA monitor connector

4

Serial port - Serial connection for Veritas Technical Support use only

5

Three stacked USB 3.0 Type A serial ports for general use

6

IPMI port - An external RJ45 port used for appliance remote management purposes

7

eth0/host0

  • NetBackup Appliance (eth0):

    Used for the initial configuration of the appliance. After completing the initial configuration, you can connect NIC1 (eth0) to an administrative network that does not provide any backup data transfer. For more information, see the NetBackup™ 52xx Appliance Initial Configuration Guide.

    Note:

    Veritas does not support forming a NIC bond using eth0/NIC1 with other eth/NIC ports.

  • Flex Appliance (host0):

    A 1-GbE port copper connector that you can connect to an administrative network to manage the appliance system. It is bonded during initial configuration as a standalone bond mgmt0.

8

eth1/NIC0

  • NetBackup Appliance (eth1):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

  • Flex Appliance (NIC0):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

9

eth2/NIC1

  • NetBackup Appliance (eth2):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

  • Flex Appliance (NIC1):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

10

eth3/NIC2

  • NetBackup Appliance (eth3):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

  • Flex Appliance (NIC2):

    A 1-GbE port for general use.

11

PCIe riser assembly 1 *

12

PCIe riser assembly 2 *

13

PCIe riser assembly 3 *

Contains two half height PCIe slots.

Note:

PCIe riser assembly 2 and riser assembly 3 are riveted together. As a result, riser assembly 2 and riser assembly 3 are removed as one unit.

* The 5250 Appliance add-in cards are available in multiple configurations. Several configurations include at least one Fibre Channel host bus adapter card for VMware, optimized deduplication over Fibre Channel, or tape library connectivity.

In some configurations the Fibre Channel host bus adapter cards are installed into some of the PCIe slots. If the cards are installed in slots 5 and 6, the configuration supports Fibre Transport Media Server (FTMS) mode. Port 1 of each card is configured by default as Target, while port 2 is configured by default as Initiator. If you want, you can configure port 2 on both cards as Target, and you can configure port 1 on both cards as Initiator.

Note:

You should not bond copper 1 Gb Ethernet ports that are installed in the appliance chassis with PCIe-based 10/25 Gb Ethernet Fibre Channel ports.

Veritas appliances may include grounding studs in case your lab environment has such a requirement. The studs are located on the rear panel of the appliance. You can use standard grounding practices to connect grounding wires to the studs.

The serial number is located on a vertical bar on the rear panel of the appliance.

Figure: Serial number location

Serial number location

The ports on the rear panel are color-coded for easy identification.

Figure: 5250 Appliance rear port color codes

5250 Appliance rear port color codes