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
Overview
The NetBackup 5240 Appliance operates with up to six external storage shelves. If your appliance has at least one storage shelf that is connected and running properly you can add more shelves for a total of six shelves.
Adding storage shelves to an appliance that already has storage shelves differs from the process of adding shelves to an appliance that has zero shelves. An appliance with an existing shelf already includes sufficient internal components to support more storage shelves.
Existing NetBackup 5240 Appliances with internal storage capacities of 14 terabytes and 27 terabytes support up to six Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelves.
Before you place the system into a production environment, you must migrate all MSDP data from the appliance to the first external storage shelf. After you migrate the MSDP data, the amount of usable storage space may fluctuate, depending on how much storage space the MSDP data pool presently uses.
See Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance.
Spanning MSDP data across a NetBackup 5240 Appliance and a storage shelf is not recommended.
More information about Migration Utilities is available in the NetBackup Appliance Administrator's Guide at the following site.