Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- Preinstallation requirements
- Customer-provided environment and supplies
- Storage shelf shipping container contents
- Appliance shipping container contents
- Enabling SAS tape-out functionality
- Determining rack locations
- Best practices for rack installation
- Heat dissipation
- Verifying SAS-3 cable length
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration on a 52xx and 5330
- Installation procedures
- Installing the storage shelf rack rails
- Installing the storage shelf into a rack
- Installing the appliance rack rails
- Installing the appliance into a rack
- Attaching the storage shelf bezel
- Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
- Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
- Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
- Connecting the network cables
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the IPMI port from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Accessing and using the Veritas Remote Management interface
- Appendix A. Adding one or more storage shelves to an operating appliance that does not have any storage shelves
- Overview
- Preparing the appliance
- Removing the appliance cover
- Installing the Expansion Storage Kit components
- Reinstalling the appliance into the rack
- Storage shelf rack requirements
- Determining rack locations
- Installing the storage shelf rails
- Installing the storage shelf or shelves into a rack
- Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
- Connecting one storage shelf to an appliance
- Connecting two storage shelves to an appliance
- Connecting three storage shelves to an appliance
- Connecting four storage shelves to an appliance
- Connecting the network cables
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
- Appendix C. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
- Index
About IPMI configuration
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (or IPMI) provides management and monitoring capabilities independently of the host system's CPU, firmware, and operating system. You can configure the IPMI sub-system for your appliances. You can use the remote management port, located on the rear panel of the appliance, to connect to the IPMI sub-system.
The following figure shows the remote management port (or the IPMI port) on the rear panel of a NetBackup 5240appliance:
The IPMI is beneficial after an unexpected power outage shuts down the connected system. In case the appliance is not accessible after the power is restored, you can use a laptop or desktop computer to access the appliance remotely by using a network connection to the hardware rather than to an operating system or login shell. This enables you to control and monitor the appliance even if it is powered down, unresponsive, or without any operating system.
The following diagram illustrates how IPMI works:
The following are some of the main uses of IPMI:
Manage an appliance that is powered off or unresponsive. Using the IPMI, you can power on, power off, or restart the appliance from a remote location.
Provide out-of-band management and help manage situations where local physical access to the appliance is not possible or preferred like branch offices and remote data centers.
Access the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu remotely using IPMI if regular network interface is not possible.
Note:
Only the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu can be accessed by using the IPMI interface. The NetBackup Appliance Web Console cannot be accessed by using the IPMI interface.
Reimage the appliance from the IPMI interface by using ISO redirection.
Monitor hardware health of the appliance from a remote location.
Avoid messy cabling and hardware like keyboard, monitor, and mouse (KVM) solutions to access the appliance.