Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description

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Platform: Veritas 5230

Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf front panel components

Hard disk drive capacities and drive bay slot assignments

The Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf contains 12 disk drive storage bays that are populated with 6TB 7200 rpm SAS hard disk drives. The available backup storage capacity of the storage shelf equals 49TBs. One of the disk drives is reserved as a hot spare. All disk drives are accessible from the front panel of the storage shelf after you remove the storage shelf bezel.

The following figure shows the front panel disk drive slot assignments within the Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf.

Figure: Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf disk drive slot layout

Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf disk drive slot layout
Hard disk drive carrier characteristics

Each storage shelf hard drive is housed in a disk drive carrier. Each disk drive carrier uses a locking mechanism that secures the disk drive within the storage shelf.

Figure: Hard disk drive tray components

Hard disk drive tray components

The following table describes the disk drive carrier LEDs. Note that the combination of both LEDs provides the status.

Table: Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf disk drive carrier LED status

Status

Activity (green) LED

Fault (amber) LED

No disk drive installed.

OFF

OFF

Drives are installed, turned on, and operational.

Blinks during I/O activity and during startup.

OFF

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Device identity set.

ON

Blinks at a rate of 1 second ON and 1 second OFF.

Drive slot fault.

OFF

ON

Drive fault. Power control circuit fault.

ON

ON

Logical fault. Possible drive failed.

ON

Blinks at a rate of 3 seconds ON and one 1 second OFF.

Note:

For security purposes, each drive tray is locked by default when the storage shelf is shipped from the factory. To access a hard disk drive, each storage bay must be unlocked using a T10 screw driver.