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
Appliance rear panel
The rear panel of the appliance contains several default ports that are embedded. Three PCIe riser assemblies support various configurations.
The three PCIe riser assemblies outlined red are numbered, 1, 2, and 3 from right to left. Slots 1 through 8 are shown in the risers.
The following list describes the numbered ports.
Two copper, RJ45, 10Gb Ethernet* ports; NIC5/eth4 and NIC6/eth5, left to right
VGA port
3 USB ports
IPMI, remote management, port
Four copper, RJ45, 1Gb Ethernet* ports, NIC1/eth0, NIC2/eth1, NIC3/eth2, and NIC4/eth3, left to right
Riser Assembly 2, Slot 1, reserved for the RAID PCIe card that is required with one or more storage shelves
Riser Assembly 3, Slot 7, reserved for the SAS RAID HBA that provides RAID1 support for the appliance storage disk drives
Slot 8 supports the use of a SAS adapter port for SAS tape-out functionality.
Note:
* The embedded Ethernet ports are copper. PCIe Ethernet ports are fibre. You cannot bond the copper ports and the fibre ports to each other.
Refer to the NetBackup 5240 Appliance Product Description at the NetBackup Appliance Documentation page for optional port configurations.