Veritas Access 3360 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.4, 8.3, 8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3360
  1. Overview
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access 3360 Appliance
    2.  
      Supported software
    3.  
      Access 3360 compute node and 5U84 storage shelves
    4.  
      Access 3360 compute node disk drives
    5. About the compute node control panel
      1.  
        About the System Status LED states
      2.  
        About the Power button LED states
    6.  
      Access 3360 compute node rear panel
    7.  
      5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
    8.  
      5U84 storage shelf control panel
    9.  
      5U84 storage shelf rear panel
    10.  
      5U84 storage shelf RAID controller
    11.  
      5U84 storage shelf Expansion module
    12.  
      Cables and connectors
    13.  
      About IPMI configuration
  2. Pre-installation requirements
    1.  
      Customer-provided environment and supplies
    2.  
      Storage shelf shipping container contents
    3.  
      Compute node shipping container contents
    4.  
      Dimensions and determining rack locations
    5.  
      Best practices for rack installation
    6.  
      Heat dissipation guidelines
    7.  
      Cable length verification
    8.  
      Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
  3. Hardware installation procedures
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Installing a storage shelf
    3.  
      Installing disk drives into a storage shelf
    4.  
      Installing the storage shelf bezels
    5.  
      Installing the compute node rack rails
    6.  
      Installing the compute node into a rack
    7.  
      Connecting the hardware to one compute node
    8.  
      Connecting the hardware to two compute nodes
    9.  
      Connecting Access nodes to the network
    10.  
      Connecting the power cords to the hardware
    11.  
      Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
    12.  
      Configuring the IPMI port
    13.  
      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.  
      Installing the hardware
    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.  
      Installing the hardware
    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 after adding one or more new Expansion Storage Shelves
    1.  
      Adding the disk space of an Expansion Storage Shelf from the Access Appliance shell menu

About the Veritas Access 3360 Appliance

The Veritas Access 3360 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that can scale up to a total of 2546 TiB (2800 TB) of usable backup capacity depending on the storage configuration you purchase.

The Veritas 3360 appliance is available as a single-node or a two-node appliance.

The Veritas 3360 two-node high availability (HA) configuration consists of two 2U 3360 appliance compute nodes and one required externally attached 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf, which is used for data storage purposes. 3360 Appliance compute nodes do not provide internal disk space for data storage. You can add up to three optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves if you require additional data storage space.

The Veritas single-node configuration consists of one 2U 3360 appliance compute node and one required externally attached 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf, which is used for data storage purposes. You can add up to three optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves if you require additional data storage space.

The following figure shows Veritas Access 3360 Appliance with two 2U 3360 Appliance compute nodes attached to one Primary and one Expansion Storage Shelf:

Note:

Total usable backup capacity depends on the hardware configuration you purchase.

SAS-3 cables connect the 3360 Appliance compute nodes to 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf RAID controllers. SAS-3 cables connect 5U84 Primary Storage Shelves to the optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves.