VERITAS 5250 Product Description Manual page 7

Flex 5250 Appliance
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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
itself, the 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 primary server
or a media server. It can also be configured as both. The 5250 Appliance supports
S Series and D Series storage shelves or a combination of both types of shelves.
See "Usable appliance storage capacities"
See Veritas Appliance Hardware Get Started Documents
SAS-3 cables connect the Veritas 5250 Appliance to the storage shelves. SAS-3
cables also connect the storage shelves to each other.
The Veritas 5250 Appliance supports the following software:
NetBackup Appliance software release 3.2 (revised) and above
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Note: This model uses a revised version of software release 3.2. This revised
software version contains specific support for the 5250 hardware and the related
software functionality that is not included in the previous 3.2 release. The
minimum supported software version for the 5250 appliance is the revised 3.2
version that is shipped with each unit. If a re-image is ever necessary, you must
use the revised 3.2 software version.
Flex Appliance 2.0.1 and above
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About Veritas 5250 Appliance configurations
To determine the right Veritas 5250 Appliance system for your environment, you
should consider the environment's future storage requirements over the lifetime of
the system.
About the Veritas 5250 Appliance
Veritas 5250 Appliance overview
on page 38.
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