Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide
- Hardware overview
- Preinstallation requirements
- Installation procedures
- 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. Adding the disk space of additional storage shelves
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 4TB, 14TB, or a 27TB 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.
See Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance.
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.
- Connect the appliance external RAID controller left port to port A on the top canister of the storage shelf.
Be sure that you orient the SAS-3 connector in the storage shelf port A so the blue tab faces down. Refer to the following section for details.
- Connect each storage shelf top canister port B to next storage shelf top canister port A. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
Follow the diagrams until all storage shelf top canisters are connected.
- Connect the appliance external RAID card right port to the last storage shelf bottom canister port A. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
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. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
- Connect another cable to the shelf that is second from the bottom. Use port B on the lower canister of that shelf. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
- 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. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
- Continue until the all storage shelf bottom canisters are connected. Ensure that the blue tab is on the same side of the SAS-3 cable as the SAS-3 label when the cable is connected.
- In a six-shelf configuration verify that all cables are installed as shown.