Veritas™ 5260 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: Veritas 5260
  1. Hardware overview
    1.  
      About the appliance and the storage shelves
    2.  
      Appliance drives
    3. About the 5260 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.  
      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. 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 storage shelf connections
    6.  
      Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
    7.  
      Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
  4. 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 Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
    5.  
      Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
    6.  
      Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
  5. 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 storage shelves to the appliance
      1.  
        Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
      2.  
        Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
      3.  
        Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
      4.  
        Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
      5.  
        Connecting the fifth storage shelf to an appliance
      6.  
        Connecting the sixth storage shelf to an appliance
  6. Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Additional storage shelf scenarios
    3. Recabling to connect additional 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
  7. 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
  8.  
    Index

Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf

The steps in this section assume that the appliance and the storage shelves are shipped together and installed at the same time. You can install up to six storage shelves with a 5260 appliance.

You can add storage shelves to an operational appliance. Refer to one of the following appendices for instructions.

  • Appendix A - Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves

    See Overview .

  • Appendix B - Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached

    See Overview.

Note:

Be sure that you orient the blue tabs on each SAS-3 connector correctly. Refer to the following section for details.

See Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections.

Warning:

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

To connect an appliance to storage shelves

Note:

This section provides detailed instructions to connect four storage shelves to an appliance. Instructions for connecting six shelves are provided where necessary.

  1. Connect the cables as follows:

    • Connect the appliance external RAID controller left port to port A on the top canister of the storage shelf.

    • Connect each storage shelf top canister port B to next storage shelf top canister port A.

    • Connect the appliance external RAID card right port to the last storage shelf bottom canister port A.

      Note:

      In a six-shelf configuration you must connect the appliance RAID card right port to port A in the bottom canister of the sixth storage shelf.

    • Starting with the last storage shelf, connect the storage shelf bottom canister port B to the next storage shelf bottom canister port A.

    • Connect another cable to the shelf that is second from the bottom. Use port B on the lower canister of that shelf.

    • Connect the other end of the cable to the shelf that is third from the bottom. Use port A on the lower canister of that shelf.

    • Continue until the all storage shelf bottom canisters are connected.

  2. In a two-shelf configuration, verify that all cables are installed as shown.
  3. In a three-shelf configuration, verify that all cables are installed as shown.
  4. In a four-shelf configuration, verify that all cables are installed as shown.
  5. In a five-shelf configuration, verify that all cables are installed as shown.
  6. In a six-shelf configuration verify that all cables are installed as shown.

See Connecting the network cables.

See Connecting the power cords.