Connecting The Appliance To One Or More Storage Shelves - Symantec NetBackup 5230 Installation Manual

Connecting the appliance to one or more storage
shelves
See "Connecting the small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) transceivers"
The SAS RAID controller PCIe card is inserted in Slot 1 of PCIe Riser Assembly
2. This card is installed at the factory. An authorized field technician can replace
an existing card or add a card if the card was not ordered originally. Customers are
not permitted to perform these operations.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) cables must be used to connect the appliance with
one or more storage shelves.
Appliance and storage shelf components
Table 5-1
Numbers Feature
1 SAS RAID PCIe card
2 1 Gb Ethernet ports
3 Serial port
4 Remote management (IPMI) port
5 10 Gb Ethernet ports
6 Storage shelves
To connect the SAS cables
1
Connect a SAS cable to each of the two ports marked "SAS_IN" on the storage
shelf.
2
Connect the other end of each SAS cable to a SAS port on the PCIe RAID
card in the appliance.
3
When more than one storage shelf is used, connect the SAS_OUT ports in the
first shelf to the SAS_IN ports in the second storage shelf.
4
Do not connect the SAS_OUT ports of the last storage shelf to any device.
See "Connecting the power cables"

Connecting the appliance to one or more storage shelves

on page 43.
Cable connections 41
on page 42.