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  • Page 1 Veritas™ 5250 Appliance Product Description Guide...
  • Page 2 Technologies LLC or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This product may contain third-party software for which Veritas is required to provide attribution to the third party (“Third-party Programs”). Some of the Third-party Programs are available under open source or free software licenses.
  • Page 3 Japan CustomerCare_Japan@veritas.com Documentation Make sure that you have the current version of the documentation. Each document displays the date of the last update on page 2. The latest documentation is available on the Veritas website: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.Appliances.html Documentation feedback Your feedback is important to us. Suggest improvements or report errors or omissions to the documentation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations ....10 About the disk drive LEDs ............11 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel USB port ......12 About the 5250 Appliance control panel ..........13 About the System Status LED states .......... 14 About the Power button LED states ..........
  • Page 5 SAS-3 cable ................48 Appendix A Technical specifications and compliance standards ............... 50 Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications ........51 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications ................... 53 Environmental specifications ............55 Protocol standards ................ 56 Regulatory, compliance, and certification information ......57 Product regulatory compliance ............

  • Page 6: About The Veritas 5250 Appliance

    Veritas 5250 Appliance overview The Veritas 5250 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that can scale to 429.4 TiB of available backup capacity. It consists of a Veritas 5250 Appliance and up to six optional Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB storage shelves. By...
  • Page 7 2U Veritas5250 Appliance offers internal storage from 9.1 TiB to 36.4 TiB, depending on the appliance configuration purchased. A Veritas 2U12 65 B storage shelf offers 65.5 TiB of storage. Attaching six storage shelves offers 429.4 TiB of storage. As with previous generations of the NetBackup 52xx appliances, the Veritas 5250 Appliance can be configured as a master server or a media server.

  • Page 8: Features And Components Of The Veritas 5250 Appliance

    About the Veritas 5250 Appliance Features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance Features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance This section describes the features and components of the Veritas 5250 Appliance. Veritas 5250 Appliance features Table 1-1 Feature...

  • Page 9: Locating The Appliance Serial Number

    These drives should not be moved into different slots or otherwise rearranged. Fibre Channel support The Veritas 5250 Appliance can be ordered with one, two, three or four PCIe 16 Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter cards preinstalled.

  • Page 10: Veritas 5250 Appliance Front Panel Disk Drive Configurations

    Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel disk drive configurations The Veritas 5250 Appliance contains 12 SAS hard disk drives, which can be accessed from the appliance's front panel. An embedded RAID controller on the appliance's mainboard is used to configure four of the 12 disks into two RAID1 mirrored volumes.

  • Page 11: About The Disk Drive Leds

    8TB (Available internal storage is 36.4TiB) RAID 6 Hot-spare About the disk drive LEDs Each Veritas 5250 Appliance disk drive module contains two LEDs on the left side of each module. Veritas 5250 Appliance disk drive module LEDs Figure 1-2...

  • Page 12: About The Veritas 5250 Appliance Front Panel Usb Port

    Power on - the disk drive is spinning About the Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel USB port The Veritas 5250 Appliance front panel includes a USB 2.0-compliant port that supports a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mb/second.

  • Page 13: About The 5250 Appliance Control Panel

    About the Veritas 5250 Appliance About the 5250 Appliance control panel About the 5250 Appliance control panel The 5250 Appliance includes a control panel on the right side of the front panel. System information is shown on this control panel. Control panel...

  • Page 14: About The System Status Led States

    (NMI), and then triggers the non-maskable interrupt. All server data can be lost. Veritas recommends that you do not enable NMI by pressing the NMI button. System Cold Reset Button When depressed, the System Cold Reset button (recessed, tool required for re-boots and re-initializes the appliance.
  • Page 15 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance About the 5250 Appliance control panel location is on the Front Control Panel, while the second location is on the back edge of the server board. System Status LED control panel location Figure 1-4 System Status The following table provides a description of each LED state.
  • Page 16 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance About the 5250 Appliance control panel System Status LED states (continued) Table 1-5 Color State Criticality Description Green ~1 Hz blink Degraded System degraded: The system is Redundant loss, such as power supply or ■...
  • Page 17 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance About the 5250 Appliance control panel System Status LED states (continued) Table 1-5 Color State Criticality Description Amber ~1 Hz blink Non-critical Non-fatal, although the system is likely to fail due to the following issues:...

  • Page 18: About The Power Button Led States

    Unable to synchronize QPI link frequency ■ About the Power button LED states The Power button is located on the Veritas 5250 Appliance control panel. It is used to turn the appliance on and off. Power button control panel location...

  • Page 19: About The 5250 Appliance Rear Panel

    About the Veritas 5250 Appliance About the 5250 Appliance rear panel Power button LED states Table 1-6 State Power Mode Description Power - off Non-ACPI The system power is off, and the BIOS has not initialized the chipset. Power - on...
  • Page 20 DB-15 VGA monitor connector Serial port - Serial connection for Veritas Technical Support use only Three stacked USB 3.0 Type A serial ports for general use IPMI port - An external RJ45 port used for appliance remote management...
  • Page 21 (continued) Number Function * The 5250 Appliance add-in cards are available in multiple configurations. Several configurations include at least one Fibre Channel host bus adapter card for VMware, optimized deduplication over Fibre Channel, or tape library connectivity. In some configurations the Fibre Channel host bus adapter cards are installed into some of the PCIe slots.

  • Page 22: Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O Configuration Options

    Figure 1-8 Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options The rear panel of the Veritas 5250 Appliance contains three PCIe riser card assemblies. PCIe riser card assemblies 1 and 2 each support three standard PCIe cards, while PCIe riser card assembly 3 supports two low profile PCIe cards. The slots are labeled 1 to 8.

  • Page 23: Veritas 5250 Appliance Total I/O On-Board And Pcie Ports

    FC HBA * Slot 1 contains a factory installed PCIe RAID controller Veritas 5250 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports Total number of Veritas 5250 Appliance on-board and PCIe I/O Table 1-9 ports for each I/O configuration 1Gb Ethernet...

  • Page 24: Available I/O Configurations By Slot For Veritas 5250 Appliance Installations

    Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5250 Appliance installations You can use the supported Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configurations to best serve the needs of your particular environment. The controller is installed in both non-shelf and with-shelf configurations The following table provides information on the make and model of each the PCIe cards that are available for use in each appliance I/O slot.
  • Page 25 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter Table 1-11 specifications Item Description Bracket Full Height height Form factor Low-profile PCIe card (6.6 inches × 2.731 inches) Power 9.3 W...
  • Page 26 4Gbps link / input-output (I/O) activity On/Blink 8Gbps link / input-output (I/O) activity On/Blink 16Gbps link / input-output (I/O) activity To purchase a QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter for your appliance, contact your Veritas sales representative, or your Veritas Partner representative.

  • Page 27: Mellanox Connectx-4 Lx En Mcx4121A-Acat Ethernet Card

    About the Veritas 5250 Appliance Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter SKU Number Description 19441 QLOGIC 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card The Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN Ethernet card supports both optical (FCoE) and copper (twinax) traffic at 10/25 Gbps Ethernet line rate speeds.
  • Page 28 About the Veritas 5250 Appliance Veritas 5250 Appliance I/O configuration options Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card Table 1-13 specifications (continued) Item Specification Speed and slot width 8.0 GT/s (gigatransfers per second), 8-Lane Data rate supported per port 10/25...

  • Page 29: Veritas 2U12 65.5Tib/72Tb Storage Shelf

    ■ Storage Shelf overview The optional Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf is a 2U12 drive enclosure that contains twelve 8TB 7200 rpm SAS hard disk drives. Available storage capacity of the storage shelf is 65 TiB. Each disk drive can be accessed from the storage...

  • Page 30: Usable Appliance Storage Capacities

    RAID 6 configuration. One of the disk drives is reserved as a global hot spare and can be used in case of any drive failure. The Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf also contains two Storage Bay Bridge 2.1 compliant (SBB) Input/Output (I/O) modules. Each I/O module has three mini-SAS HD ports, which are labeled A, B, and C.

  • Page 31: Components Of The Storage Shelf

    <appliance-only capacity> + 65.5 = exact usable capacity * You can add up to six Storage Shelves to an existing Veritas 5250 Appliance with internal storage capacities of 9.1TiB or 36.4TiB. However, before you place the system into a production environment, you must migrate all MSDP data from the appliance to the first external storage shelf.
  • Page 32 Components of the Storage Shelf The following figure shows the front panel disk drive slot assignments within the Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf. Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf disk drive slot layout Figure 2-1 Hard disk drive carrier characteristics Each storage shelf hard drive is housed in a disk drive carrier. Each disk drive carrier uses a locking mechanism that secures the disk drive within the storage shelf.

  • Page 33: Storage Shelf Control Panel

    To access a hard disk drive, each storage bay must be unlocked using a T10 torx screw driver. Storage Shelf control panel The Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf control panel is installed on the front left side of the storage shelf.
  • Page 34 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf control panel Figure 2-3 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf control panel functions Table 2-3 Number Item Description Input switch The Input switch enables you to set the Unit Identification display.
  • Page 35 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf control panel functions Table 2-3 (continued) Number Item Description Unit Identification Display The Unit Identification Display is a dual digit display that provides information about the storage shelf.

  • Page 36: Storage Shelf Rear Components

    Enclosure ID setting different from "start of day" setting N/A - Not Applicable For more information, see the Veritas 5250 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide. Storage Shelf rear components This section describes the rear panel features of the Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf.

  • Page 37: Storage Shelf I/O Modules

    Storage Shelf I/O modules This section discusses the Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf I/O modules. Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf I/O module Figure 2-5 The following figure and table provides details of the two Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf I/O module canisters.
  • Page 38 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf I/O modules Figure 2-6 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf I/O module components Table 2-6 Number Description I/O module 0 I/O module 1 I/O module Status LEDs “I/O module Status LED location and conditions”...

  • Page 39: I/O Module Status Led Location And Conditions

    Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf I/O module Status LED location and conditions This section discusses the location of the Status LEDs on the I/O module and the Status LED conditions. I/O module Status indicator LED location...
  • Page 40 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf I/O module SAS Activity LED location Figure 2-8 SAS Activity LED location I/O module SAS Activity LED conditions Table 2-8 Condition Activity LED (green) Fault LED (amber) No Cable Present Cable Present All links up, no activity.

  • Page 41: Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules

    Components of the Storage Shelf Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules The Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf includes two Power Cooling Modules (PCM). The dual PCMs provide redundant power to the storage shelf. If one PCM fails, the storage shelf continues to operate as the second PCM continues to supply the storage shelf with power.

  • Page 42: Power Cooling Module Leds

    Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf Power Cooling Module components (continued) Table 2-9 Number Component Serial number - located on the Power Cooling Module 0 tab Note: The storage shelf serial number begins with the letters SH.
  • Page 43 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf Components of the Storage Shelf Power Cooling Module LED legend Table 2-10 Number LED condition AC fail Fan fail Power Cooling Module OK DC fail Power Cooling Module LED conditions Table 2-11 Status Power Fan Fail...

  • Page 44: Chapter 3 Veritas 5250 Appliance And Veritas 2U12 65.5Tib/72Tb Storage Shelf Cables

    ■ Power cables Each of the AC power modules in the Veritas 5250 Appliance and in the optional Storage Shelf accept one AC power cable. One end of the AC power cable is connected to the power supply on the appliance or the storage device. The other end of the cable is connected to an external Power Distribution Unit (PDU) on the rack.

  • Page 45: Network Cable

    AC power connector (IEC-60320-C13) to an appliance or a storage device. Note: If your power distribution unit is not compatible with the IEC-60320-C14 plug, then Veritas recommends that you purchase your power cable locally. Make sure the power cable meets or exceeds the indicated power rating.

  • Page 46: Multi-Mode Fiber Optic Cable

    Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables Multi-Mode fiber optic cable Network cable Figure 3-2 “Power cables” on page 44. “Multi-Mode fiber optic cable” on page 46. “SAS-3 cable” on page 48. “Twinaxial copper cables” on page 47.

  • Page 47: Twinaxial Copper Cables

    Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables Twinaxial copper cables Fiber optic cables require Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers, which are provided with each device having Fibre Channel ports. The diagram shows the SFP, labeled 1, and the fiber optic cable which is attached to it, labeled 2.

  • Page 48: Sas-3 Cable

    SAS-3 cable SAS-3 data cables are used to connect the optional Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf to the Veritas 5250 Appliance. SAS-3 cables have a mini-SAS HD connector on both ends. Two 1m SAS-3 cables are shipped with each Storage Shelf.
  • Page 49 Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables SAS-3 cable SAS-3 cable Figure 3-4 “Power cables” on page 44. “Multi-Mode fiber optic cable” on page 46. “Twinaxial copper cables” on page 47. “Network cable” on page 45.

  • Page 50: Appendix A Technical Specifications And Compliance Standards

    Appendix Technical specifications and compliance standards This appendix includes the following topics: Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications ■ Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications ■ Environmental specifications ■ Protocol standards ■ Regulatory, compliance, and certification information ■ Product regulatory compliance ■...

  • Page 51: Veritas 5250 Appliance Technical Specifications

    Technical specifications and compliance standards Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications The following table provides technical specifications for the Veritas 5250 Appliance. Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications Table A-1 Technical Specification Veritas 5250 Appliance Rack information 19"...
  • Page 52 Technical specifications and compliance standards Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications Veritas 5250 Appliance technical specifications (continued) Table A-1 Technical Specification Veritas 5250 Appliance Maximum number of storage shelves 1 Gb Ethernet ports Up to 4 maximum 10/25 Gb Ethernet ports...

  • Page 53: Veritas 2U12 65.5Tib/72Tb Storage Shelf Technical Specifications

    90% + Acoustic noise 70 dBA “Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications” on page 53. “Environmental specifications” on page 55. Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications The following table provides technical specifications for a Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf.
  • Page 54 Technical specifications and compliance standards Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications Table A-2 Technical specification Description Rack information The rack installation height is the space occupied by a storage shelf in a rack cabinet. The height for the storage shelf is 3.5 inches, 88.9mm.

  • Page 55: Environmental Specifications

    51. “Environmental specifications” on page 55. Environmental specifications The following table lists the environmental specifications for the Veritas 5250 Appliance and the Veritas 2U12 Storage Shelf. Veritas 5250 Appliance and Veritas 2U12 Storage Shelf Table A-3 environmental specifications...

  • Page 56: Protocol Standards

    51. “Protocol standards” on page 56. Protocol standards The following table provides standards with which the Veritas 5250 Appliance and the Veritas 2U12 Storage Shelf comply. Veritas 5250 Appliance / Veritas 2U12 Storage Shelf standards Table A-4 compliance...

  • Page 57: Regulatory, Compliance, And Certification Information

    Technical specifications and compliance standards Regulatory, compliance, and certification information Regulatory, compliance, and certification information The following sections give information about the product regulations and compliance. WARNING To ensure regulatory compliance, you must adhere to the assembly instructions in this guide to ensure and maintain compliance with existing product certifications and approvals.

  • Page 58: Product Safety Compliance

    Technical specifications and compliance standards Product safety compliance Product safety compliance The following is a list of product safety compliance norms for different countries: UL60950 - CSA 60950 (USA / Canada) ■ EN60950 (Europe) ■ CB Certificate & Report, IEC60950 (report to include all country national ■...

  • Page 59: Electromagnetic Compatibility Notices

    Technical specifications and compliance standards Electromagnetic compatibility notices Quantity limit of 0.01% by mass (100 PPM) for: Cadmium ■ California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 4.5, Chapter 33: Best ■ Management Practices for Perchlorate Materials China - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (China RoHS) ■...

  • Page 60: Ices-003 (Canada)

    Technical specifications and compliance standards ICES-003 (Canada) is likely to result in interference to radio and TV reception. All cables that are used to connect to peripherals must be shielded and grounded. Operation with regulatory and compliance information 65 Electromagnetic compatibility notices the cables that are connected to peripherals that are not shielded and grounded may result in interference to radio and TV reception.

  • Page 61: Index

    19 Storage Shelf 31 appliance configurations available 22–23 environmental specifications Veritas 5250 Appliance / Veritas 2U12 Storage cables Shelf 55 multi-mode fiber optic description 46 network description 45 FC HBA LED status lights...
  • Page 62 Index processor appliance 8 hard disk drive capacities RAID levels 8 Storage Shelf 31 protocol standards hardware configurations Veritas 5250 Appliance / Veritas 2U12 Storage available 22–23 Shelf 56 I/O configuration RAID configuration ethernet card 27 Appliance 10 I/O configurations...
  • Page 63 Index usable storage capacities appliance 30 USB port Appliance 12 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf components 31...

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