Netbackup 5240 Appliance Overview - VERITAS NetBackup 5240 Appliance Product Description

About the NetBackup 5240 Appliance 7

NetBackup 5240 Appliance overview

NetBackup 5240 Appliance overview
The NetBackup 5240 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that
can scale to 300TB of available backup capacity. It consists of a NetBackup 5240
Appliance and up to six optional Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelves. By itself, the
2U NetBackup 5240 Appliance offers internal storage from 4TB to 27TB, depending
on the appliance configuration purchased.
A Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf offers 49TBs of storage. Attaching six storage
shelves offers 300TBs of storage. As with previous generations of the NetBackup
52xx appliances, the NetBackup 5240 Appliance can be configured as a Master
Server or a Media Server. It can also be configured as both.
See "Usable appliance storage capacities" on page 33.
SAS-3 cables connect the NetBackup 5240 Appliance to the storage shelves. SAS-3
cables also connect the storage shelves to each other.
About NetBackup 5240 Appliance configurations
To determine the right NetBackup 5240 Appliance system for your environment,
you should consider the environment's future storage requirements over the lifetime
of the system.
Veritas offers four NetBackup 5240 Appliance configurations from which to choose.
One of these configurations offers the ability to add additional storage capacity to
the system by attaching up to six Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelves.
These configurations include the following: