Veritas™ 5260 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- Preinstallation requirements
- Customer-provided environment and supplies
- Appliance shipping container contents
- Storage shelf shipping container contents
- Best practices for rack installation
- Determining rack locations
- Storage shelf rack requirements
- Heat dissipation
- Verifying SAS-3 cable length
- Prerequisites for IPMI configuration
- 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
- Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections
- Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf
- Connecting an appliance to more than one storage shelf
- Next steps after installation
- Connecting the network cables
- Connecting the power cords
- Turning on the hardware and verifying operation
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface from a Flex Appliance
- Configuring the Veritas Remote Management Interface using laptop
- 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
- Appendix B. Adding storage shelves to an operating appliance that has at least one storage shelf attached
- Appendix C. Configuring the disk space for new Flex Expansion Storage Shelves
- Index
Customer-provided environment and supplies
For best ventilation, the rack cabinet:
Should be at least 100 cm (4 feet) from walls
Should have at least 100 cm (4 feet) from other cabinets on the front and back of the appliance and the storage shelves
Data centers with two-foot spaces in the front and in the back of the appliances are acceptable with proper cooling and ventilation.
Refer to the following section for more details.
See Heat dissipation.
The following describes the necessary personnel and equipment that are needed at the installation site:
At least three people or a mechanical lift to move the appliance and the storage shelves.
Cables to connect the appliance to your corporate network.
Cables to connect the appliance to external storage.
A USB-keyboard and a monitor to connect to the appliance.
A 19-inch rack with dual Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with 120VAC or 220VAC power supplies for the compute node.
A magnetic Philips-head screw driver to install the storage shelf rails into the rack.
A screwdriver with a 2mm Hex bit to secure the bezels to the front of each storage shelf drawer.
A 19-inch rack with dual Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with 220VAC power input for the storage shelves.