Chapter 1 Hardware overview ............................................................. 7
About the appliance and the storage shelves ....................................... 7
Appliance disk drives ...................................................................... 8
Appliance control panel ................................................................... 8
Appliance rear panel ....................................................................... 9
Storage shelf disk drives ................................................................ 10
Storage shelf control panel ............................................................. 11
Storage shelf rear panel ................................................................. 12
Cables ....................................................................................... 12
About IPMI configuration ................................................................ 13
Product documentation .................................................................. 14
Chapter 2 Preinstallation requirements .......................................... 15
Customer-provided environment and supplies .................................... 15
Storage shelf shipping container contents .......................................... 16
Appliance shipping container contents .............................................. 16
Determining rack locations ............................................................. 17
Best practices for rack installation .................................................... 18
Heat dissipation ........................................................................... 19
Determining SAS-3 cable length ...................................................... 19
Prerequisites for IPMI configuration .................................................. 20
Chapter 3 Installation procedures ..................................................... 23
Installing the storage shelf rack rails ................................................. 23
Installing the storage shelf into a rack ............................................... 25
Installing the appliance rack rails ..................................................... 26
Installing the appliance into a rack ................................................... 31
Understanding appliance and storage shelf connections ....................... 34
Connecting a 4TB appliance to one storage shelf ................................ 37
Connecting a 4TB appliance to more than one storage shelf ................. 39
Connecting the network cables ........................................................ 47
Connecting the power cords ........................................................... 48
Turning on the hardware and verifying operation ................................. 49
Configuring the IPMI from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu ............ 57
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