Netbackup 5330 Storage Shelves And Disk Drives - Symantec NetBackup 5330 Hardware Installation Manual

NetBackup 5330 storage shelves and disk drives

The NetBackup 5330 appliance supports two types of external disk drive storage
as follows:
Primary Storage Shelf
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Expansion Storage Shelf
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Each NetBackup 5330 appliance requires one Primary Storage Shelf. The Expansion
Storage Shelf provides additional storage capacity.
Due to weight considerations, the storage shelves should be installed at or as close
to the bottom of the rack as is possible. When the storage shelves and an appliance
have been installed, the Fibre Channel (FC), SAS, and power cables are connected
between the units. The FC cables connect the appliance to the Primary Storage
Shelf. The SAS cables connect a Primary Storage Shelf to an Expansion Storage
Shelf. When all connections are completed, turn on the storage shelves and the
appliance to initialize and synchronize the units.
To help reduce the weight of the units during installation, the disk drives are not
factory-installed into the storage shelves. The disks are shipped in separate
packages, with ten disks in each package. Six packages are required to fully
populate each storage shelf. Each individual disk is wrapped in an anti-static bag.
Disks must be installed into the storage shelves by opening the storage shelf drawers
and inserting each disk into a slot. Best practices recommend that you start at the
bottom drawer and move up. Insert the disks into one drawer at a time.
The drawers for each shelf are numbered from 1 to 5 starting at the top of the shelf.
The disk slots in each drawer are numbered from 1 to 12 starting at the left side of
the drawer.
NetBackup 5330 storage shelves and disk drives
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