Required Reading; Understanding Hardware Scenarios - VERITAS NetBackup 5330 Installation Manual

Required reading

Understanding hardware scenarios

Read the following sections before proceeding. Information in these sections helps
you determine the hardware you have already installed and any additional hardware
that you need to install.
See "Understanding hardware scenarios"
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See "Performing a soft shutdown before adding a new expansion shelf"
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on page 57.
See "NetBackup 5330 cables and connectors"
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Support of the 6TB disk drives in the storage shelves started with the NetBackup
5330 Appliance Release 2.7.1. Previous releases supported only the 3TB storage
disk drives. You cannot mix 3TB and 6TB drives in a single storage shelf. However,
you can use storage shelves with the 3TB drives or the 6TB drives in an appliance
system.
The support of the high availability (HA) solution begins with the NetBackup 5330
Appliance Release 3.1. The solution requires two NetBackup 5330 nodes, a Primary
Shelf, and an optional maximum of five Expansion Shelves.
The following list describes the instructions that this guide provides.
Installing and connecting a compute node and a primary shelf.
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Installing and connecting a partner node to an existing primary shelf and an
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existing compute node to create an HA environment.
Installing and connecting an expansion shelf to a primary shelf and a compute
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node.
Installing additional expansion shelves and connecting them to an existing
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expansion shelf, primary shelf, and compute node.
Caution: When you add expansion shelves to an operational appliance, best
practices recommend that you turn off the compute node, the primary shelf, and
expansion shelves.
Hardware overview
Required reading
on page 15.
on page 12.
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