Veritas NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description
- Product overview
- About the appliance
- About storage capacity
- About best practices for rack installation
- About the appliance rear panel
- About the mainboard RAID controller
- About the external RAID controller
- About the NetBackup 5230 rear panel configurations
- About the FC HBA port configurations
- About the 2-port 8 Gb FC HBA
- About the dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet card
- About the Veritas 3U16 24TB Storage Shelf / Veritas 3U16 36TB Storage Shelf
- Appliance and storage shelf connections
- NetBackup 5230 documentation
- Cables
- Technical specifications, standards, and compliance information
- Appendix A. About the optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf
About the appliance rear panel
The rear panel of the appliance has several access ports and other features, which are displayed in Figure: Rear panel access ports and features.
Table: Rear panel connectors and features
Number | Function |
|---|---|
1, 2 | Power Supply Modules #1, #2 (120VAC) |
3 | NIC1/eth0, a 1Gb connector that is reserved for private management usage By default, NIC1 (eth0) is factory set to IP address 192.168.229.233. This private network address is reserved to provide a direct connection from a laptop to perform the initial configuration of the appliance. NIC1 (eth0) is typically not connected to your network environment. After you complete the initial configuration, you can connect NIC1 (eth0) to an administrative network that does not provide any backup data transfer. |
4, 5, 6 | NIC2/eth1, NIC3/eth2, and NIC4/eth3, reserved for public networks. All three are 1Gb connectors. |
7 | DB-15 VGA connector |
8 | RJ45 Serial-A port (reserved) |
9 | USB connectors |
10 | IPMI remote management port |
11 | NIC5/eth4 and NIC6/eth5, left to right: 10Gb network connectors for public networks |
12 | Add-in PCIe adapter slots (SAS, Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet) |
13 | Serial-B port (reserved) |
Starting in January 2014 NetBackup appliances may include grounding studs in case your lab environment has such a requirement. The studs are located on the rear panel of the appliance. You can use standard grounding practices to connect grounding wires to the studs.
The serial number is located on a vertical bar in the rear panel of the appliance.
The ports on the rear panel are color-coded for easy identification.
The rear panel has two sets of low profile, full height, 3.5" form factor PCIe slots. The following diagram shows the slot numbers 1 through 6. Riser assembly 2 includes slots 1, 2, and 3. Riser assembly 1 includes slots 4, 5, and 6. Fibre channel cards are shown in slots 5 and 6. This configuration is one of several options.
The NetBackup 5230 appliance add-in cards are available in five configurations. Several configurations include at least one FC HBA card for VMware, Optimized Deduplication over FC, or tape library connectivity.
In some configurations the FC HBA cards are installed into some of the PCIe slots. If the cards are installed in slots 5 and 6, the configuration supports Fibre Transport media server (FTMS) mode. Port 1 of each card is configured in Target mode (1) as shown. Port 2 is configured in Initiator mode (2). Only configurations D and E support FTMS.
