Installing And Connecting An Additional Veritas Storage Shelf To An Operational Netbackup 52Xx Appliance - VERITAS NetBackup 523 Installation Manuals

58 Adding storage shelves

Installing and connecting an additional Veritas Storage Shelf to an operational NetBackup 52xx appliance

Installing and connecting an additional Veritas
Storage Shelf to an operational NetBackup 52xx
appliance
Installing the new Veritas Storage Shelf
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This task involves mounting the new units in the rack and connecting the SAS
and the power cables.
See "Installing and connecting an additional Veritas Storage Shelf to an
operational NetBackup 52xx appliance" on page 58.
Adding the new disk storage space to the system
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This task makes the disk storage space of the new units available for use.
See "Adding the disk space of additional Veritas Storage Shelf units to an
operational NetBackup 52xx appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web
Console" on page 61.
See "Adding the disk space of additional Veritas Storage Shelf units to an
operational NetBackup 52xx appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Shell
Menu" on page 62.
Note: When you add an additional Veritas Storage Shelf to an operational appliance,
Veritas recommends that you schedule this task during low system activity.
Use the following procedure to install and connect an additional Veritas Storage
Shelf to an operational NetBackup 52xx appliance.
Note: When you add a storage shelf to an operational system, it is not necessary
to shut down the appliance server or any existing storage shelves.
To install and connect an additional Veritas Storage Shelf to an operational
NetBackup 52xx appliance
1
Install the new storage shelf units in the rack.
2
Locate the SAS cables that are shipped with each storage shelf and connect
them as described in the following diagram and text descriptions: