VERITAS 5260 User manual

Veritas™ 5260 Appliance
Product Description Guide

Veritas 5260 Appliance Product Description Guide
Last updated: 2023-07-25
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Chapter 1 About the Veritas 5260 Appliance .................................. 6
Veritas 5260 Appliance overview ....................................................... 6
Features and components of the Veritas 5260 Appliance ........................ 8
Locating the appliance serial number ............................................... 10
Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations ........................ 11
About the drive LEDs .............................................................. 12
About the Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel USB port ........................ 13
About the 5260 Appliance control panel ............................................ 13
About the System Status LED states .......................................... 16
About the Power button LED states ............................................ 19
About the 5260 Appliance rear panel ................................................ 20
Veritas 5260 Appliance I/O configuration options ................................. 22
Veritas 5260 Appliance total I/O on-board and PCIe ports ............... 25
Customizable I/O configurations by slot for existing Veritas 5260
Appliance ....................................................................... 25
Broadcom P225p 10/25Gb PCIe Ethernet card ............................. 26
QLE2772 dual-port 32 Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter ............. 27
Intel RAID Adapter RS3P4MF088F ............................................ 29
Chapter 2 Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf ............... 31
Storage Shelf overview .................................................................. 31
Usable appliance storage capacities ................................................ 32
Components of the Storage Shelf .................................................... 33
Storage Shelf front panel components ........................................ 33
Storage Shelf control panel ...................................................... 35
Storage Shelf rear components ................................................. 38
Storage Shelf I/O modules ....................................................... 39
I/O module Status LED location and conditions ............................. 41
I/O module SAS Activity LED location and conditions ..................... 41
Storage Shelf Power Cooling Modules ........................................ 42
Power Cooling Module LEDs .................................................... 44
Contents

Chapter 3 Veritas 5260 Appliance and Veritas 2U12
65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf cables ....................... 46
Power cables ............................................................................... 46
Network cable .............................................................................. 47
Multi-Mode fiber optic cable ............................................................ 48
Twinaxial copper cables ................................................................. 49
SAS-3 cable ................................................................................ 50
Appendix A Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol
standards, and Compliance standards ................. 52
Veritas 5260 Appliance technical specifications .................................. 52
Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf technical specifications
........................................................................................... 55
Environmental specifications ........................................................... 57
Protocol standards ........................................................................ 58
Regulatory, compliance, and certification information ........................... 58
Product regulatory compliance ........................................................ 59
Country approvals ........................................................................ 59
Product safety compliance ............................................................. 60
Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance ................................ 60
Product environmental compliance ................................................... 61
Index .................................................................................................................... 62
5Contents

About the Veritas 5260
Appliance
This chapter includes the following topics:
■Veritas 5260 Appliance overview
■Features and components of the Veritas 5260 Appliance
■Locating the appliance serial number
■Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations
■About the Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel USB port
■About the 5260 Appliance control panel
■About the 5260 Appliance rear panel
■Veritas 5260 Appliance I/O configuration options
Veritas 5260 Appliance overview
The Veritas 5260 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that can
scale to 429.4 TiB of available backup capacity. It consists of a Veritas 5260
Appliance and up to six optional Veritas 2U12 65.5TiB/72TB storage shelves. By
itself, the 2U Veritas 5260 Appliance offers internal storage from 9.1 TiB to 36.4
TiB, depending on the appliance configuration purchased.
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Chapter

Figure 1-1 Veritas 5260 Appliance
A Veritas 2U12 storage shelf offers 65.5 TiB of storage. Attaching six storage
shelves offers 429.4 TiB of storage. As with previous generations of the Flex 52xx
appliances, the Veritas 5260 Appliance can be configured as a primary server or
a media server. It can also be configured as both. The 5260 Appliance supports
upto 6 storage shelves.
See “Usable appliance storage capacities” on page 32.
SAS-3 cables connect the Veritas 5260 Appliance to the storage shelves. SAS-3
cables also connect the storage shelves to each other.
The Veritas 5260 Appliance supports the following software:
■Flex Appliance 3.2 and above
About Veritas 5260 Appliance configurations
To determine the right Veritas 5260 Appliance system for your environment, you
should consider the environment’s future storage requirements over the lifetime of
the system.
Veritas offers multiple I/O configurations from which to choose. You can use the
supported Veritas 5260 Appliance I/O configurations to best serve the needs of
your particular environment.
These configurations include the following:
■One Veritas 5260 Appliance with 9.1 TiB of internal storage only
■One Veritas 5260 Appliance with 36.4 TiB of internal storage only
■One Veritas 5260 Appliance with up to six external 65.5TiB/72TB storage shelves
for a total of 429.4 TiB of storage
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Veritas 5260 Appliance overview

If your environment requires more than 36TiBs of storage, consider the Veritas
5260 Appliance with 9.1TiBs of internal storage and one 65.5TiB/72TB Veritas
2U12 65.5TiB/72TB Storage Shelf. If more storage is required, you can add up to
five additional storage shelves to this configuration.
Features and components of the Veritas 5260
Appliance
This section describes the features and components of the Veritas 5260 Appliance.
Table 1-1 Veritas 5260 Appliance features
DescriptionFeature
Intel Xeon Scalable Third generation Silver 4314Processor
Flex Appliance 3.2 or higherAppliance
software version
■Supports high-performance processors with low-power consumption.
■Provides high-capacity intra-appliance switching bandwidth, along
with high I/O throughput.
■Available internal storage capacities of 9 TB, or 36 TB without optional
external storage shelves. The available capacity can be allocated
either in part or in whole to a deduplication pool or to an
AdvancedDisk pool (non-deduplicated storage).
Performance and
capacity
64GB, up to a maximum of 512GB
Note: When you purchase the first expansion storage shelf, the Storage
Expansion kit that comes with the storage shelf includes a replacement
of 256GB memory. A Memory Expansion kit containing eight 32GB DIMM
memory chip is needed to support the fifth storage shelf.
System memory
configuration
(DIMMS)
The deduplication engine provides up to 100 times reduction in storage.
The client-side plug-in provides similar levels of bandwidth reduction.
Space reduction
Due to fingerprinting and RAID redundancy, the overall storage
capabilities are not a simple multiplication of the disk size and the total
number of disks.
Scalable
architecture
Supports redundant hot-swappable disks and power modules.High availability
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Features and components of the Veritas 5260 Appliance

Table 1-1 Veritas 5260 Appliance features (continued)
DescriptionFeature
RAID 1 (standard mirroring) and RAID 6 (block level striping with double
distributed parity) are implemented as follows:
■Appliance system disks: RAID 1
■Appliance storage disks: RAID 6
■Storage shelf data storage disks: RAID 6
Note: The disk drives in the appliance are pre-formatted before the
appliance is shipped. These drives should not be moved into different
slots or otherwise rearranged.
RAID levels
The Veritas 5260 Appliance can be ordered with one, two, three or four
PCIe 32 Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter cards preinstalled.
See “ Veritas 5260 Appliance I/O configuration options” on page 22.
See “Customizable I/O configurations by slot for existing Veritas 5260
Appliance” on page 25.
Fibre Channel
support
Yes (with Fibre Optic ports)PCIe 10/25 Gb
Ethernet cards
2
Used to connect the Veritas
Appliance compute node to the
2U12 Primary Storage Shelf
12 Gb SAS-3 ports
(PCIe-based)
(RAID controller)
I/O Ports
See “Veritas 5260
Appliance total I/O
on-board and
PCIe ports”
on page 25. Up to six, depending on the
appliance I/O configuration
10/25 GbE
Ethernet/iSCSI-capable ports
(PCIe-based)
Up to eight, depending on the
appliance I/O configuration
32 Gb Fibre Channel ports
(PCIe-based)
410 Gb Ethernet ports
(on-board)
Yes
You can attach up to six optional storage shelves to the Veritas 5260
Appliance. Depending on the appliance configuration you purchase, a
total of 429.4 TB of usable storage capacity is available.
See “Usable appliance storage capacities” on page 32.
Additional storage
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Features and components of the Veritas 5260 Appliance

Locating the appliance serial number
The serial number is located on the rear panel of the appliance above PSU 1 and
begins with letters VTAS.
The serial number can also be found on the pull-out tab on the front of the appliance.
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Locating the appliance serial number

Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive
configurations
The Veritas 5260 Appliance contains 3 NVMe solid state drives, and 8 SAS hard
disk drives, which can be accessed from the appliance's front panel.
Figure 1-2 Appliance front panel drive slot assignments
The drives that are located in slot 4 and slot 5 are configured as the RAID1,
VOLUME0 device. These drives contain the appliance operating system and the
Flex application along with the log files. You can hot-swap one of these drives at a
time; however, you cannot operate the appliance if both drives are removed.
The drive in slot 6 acts as a hot spare for OS and log files.
The drives in slots 0-3 and slots 8-10 store user data. They are configured as a
RAID 6 array, which uses block-level striping with two parity blocks across each of
the drives in the volume.
The appliance uses the drive that is located in slot 11 as a hot-spare drive. If one
of the drives fails in slots 0-3 or slots 8-10, the appliance automatically initiates a
RAID 6 rebuild operation. It rebuilds the RAID 6 array by using the hot-spare drive
in slot 11. After you replace the failed drive, the appliance then copies the information
from the drive in slot 11 to the new replacement drive. When the copy operation
finishes, the drive in slot 11 again becomes the hot-spare drive.
Note: The hot-spare drive size depends on the data drive size.
Warning: The drives are pre-formatted before the appliance is shipped. Do not
rearrange the drives from their original locations.
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Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations

Table 1-2 Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel drive configurations
Drive roleDrive sizeRAID
Configuration
Slot
User data2TB (Available internal storage is 9.1TiB)
8TB (Available internal storage is 36.4TiB)
RAID 60-3
8-10
OS/log files1.92 TBRAID 14,5
Hot spare for OS
and log drives
1.92 TBRAID 16
Hot spare for user
storage data
2TB
8TB
RAID 611
About the drive LEDs
Figure 1-3 Appliance drive LEDs
Table 1-3 Drive Status LED descriptions
ConditionLED behaviorDescription
No drive access and no disk drive faultsOffAmber Status
LED
A drive fault has occurredSolid amber
A RAID rebuild is in progress (1Hz blink)
Locating / identifying the drive (2Hz blink)
Blinking amber
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Table 1-4 Drive Activity LED States
ConditionLED behaviorDescription
Power on - the drive has spun downOffGreen Activity
LED
Power on - no drive activitySolid green
Power on - I/O is being processed by the
drive
or
Power on - the drive is spinning up
Blinking green
About the Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel USB
port
The Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel includes a USB 3.0-compliant port that
supports a data transfer rate of up to 500 Mb/second.
About the 5260 Appliance control panel
The front control panel provides push button system controls and LED indicators
for several system features.
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About the Veritas 5260 Appliance front panel USB port

Table 1-5 Control panel system LED descriptions
System informationLED
The Power button toggles the system on and off. This
button also functions as a sleep button if enabled by an
ACPI compliant operating system. Pressing this button
sends a signal to the integrated BMC that either powers
on or powers off the system. Holding the power button for
10 seconds or more leads to a hard shutdown.
The integrated LED is a single color (green) and supports
different indicator states as defined in the following table.
See “About the Power button LED states” on page 19.
Power button with integrated
LED
The drive activity LED on the front panel indicates drive
activity from the server board SATA and sSATA storage
controllers. The server board also has an I2C header
labeled “SAS_MODULE_MISC” to provide access to this
LED for add-in SATA or sSATA storage controllers.
Drive Activity LED
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Table 1-5 Control panel system LED descriptions (continued)
System informationLED
Toggles the integrated ID LED and the blue server board
system ID LED on and off. Both LEDs are tied together
and show the same state. The onboard system ID LED is
on the back edge of the server board, viewable from the
back of the system. The system ID LEDs are used to
identify the system for maintenance when installed in a
rack of similar server systems. Two options available for
illuminating the system ID LEDs are:
■The front panel system ID LED button is pushed, which
causes the LEDs to illuminate to a solid On state until
the button is pushed again.
■An IPMI Chassis Identify command is remotely
entered that causes the LEDs to blink for 15 seconds.
System ID button with integrated
LED
When the NMI button is pressed, it puts the system in a
halt state and issues a non-maskable interrupt (NMI). This
situation can be useful when performing diagnostics for a
given issue where a memory download is necessary to
help determine the cause of the problem. To prevent an
inadvertent system halt, the actual NMI button is behind
the front control panel faceplate where it is only accessible
with the use of a small tipped tool like a pin or paper clip.
NMI button (recessed, tool
required for use)
When pressed, this button reboots and re-initializes the
system. Unlike the power button, the reset button does
not disconnect the power to the system. It just starts the
system’s Power-On Self-Test (POST) sequence over
again.
System Cold Reset Button
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Table 1-5 Control panel system LED descriptions (continued)
System informationLED
The system status LED is a bi-color (green/amber)
indicator that shows the current health of the server
system.
The system provides two locations for this feature; one is
on the front control panel and the other is on the back
edge of the server board, viewable from the back of the
system. Both LEDs are tied together and show the same
state. The system status LED states are driven by the
server board platform management subsystem. When the
server is powered down (transitions to the DC-Off state
or S5), the BMC is still on standby power and retains the
sensor and front panel status LED state established before
the power-down event.
Two locations are provided for you to monitor the health
of the system. You can find the first location on the front
control panel, while the second location is located on the
back edge of the server board. It is viewable from the rear
of the appliance. Both LEDs show the same state of health.
See “About the System Status LED states” on page 16.
System Status LED
About the System Status LED states
The following table provides a description of each LED state.
Table 1-6 System Status LED states
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
■System power is off (AC and/or DC)
■System is in EuP Lot6 Off Mode
Not readyOff - The
system is not
operating.
No
color
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Table 1-6 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
■System is in S5 Soft-Off State
■Indicates that the system is running (in S0
State) and its status is “Healthy”. The system
is not exhibiting any errors. AC power is
present and BMC has booted and
manageability functionality is up and running.
■After a BMC reset, and with the chassis ID
solid on, the BMC is booting Linux*. Control
has been passed from BMC uBoot to BMC
Linux*. The BMC is in this state for roughly
10–20 seconds.
HealthySolid on (SO)Green
System degraded:
■Redundant loss, such as power supply or
fan. Applies only if the associated platform
sub-system has redundancy capabilities.
■Fan warning or failure when the number of
fully operational fans is more than minimum
number needed to cool the system.
■Non-critical threshold crossed: Temperature
(including HSBP temp), voltage, input power
to power supply, output current for main
power rail from power supply and Processor
Thermal Control (Therm Ctrl) sensors.
■Power supply predictive failure occurred while
redundant power supply configuration was
present.
■Unable to use all of the installed memory (one
or more DIMMs failed/disabled but functional
memory remains available).
■Battery failure
■BMC executing in uBoot. (Indicated by
Chassis ID blinking at 3Hz). System in
degraded state (no manageability). BMC
uBoot is running but has not transferred
control to the BMC Linux. Server will be in
this state 6-8 seconds after BMC reset while
it pulls the Linux image into flash.
Degraded
The system is
operating in a
degraded state
although still
functional.
or
The system is
operating in a
redundant state
but with an
impending failure
warning.
~1 Hz blinkGreen
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Table 1-6 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
System degraded (continued):
■BMC Watchdog has reset the BMC.
■Power unit sensor offset for configuration
error is asserted.
■SSD Hot Swap Controller is off-line or
degraded.
Degraded
(continued)
~1 Hz blinkGreen
■PFR in the process of
updating/authenticating/recovering when
source power is connected, system firmware
being updated.
■System not ready to take power button
event/signal.
System is
initializing after
source power is
applied
~1 Hz blinkGreen
and
amber
altern
atively
Non-fatal, although the system is likely to fail due
to the following issues:
■Critical threshold crossed – Voltage,
temperature (including HSBP temp), input
power to power supply, output current for
main power rail from power supply and
PROCHOT (Therm Ctrl) sensors.
■VRD Hot asserted
■Minimum number of fans to cool the system
not present or failed
■Hard drive fault
■Power Unit Redundancy sensor – Insufficient
resources offset (indicates not enough power
supplies present)
■In non-sparing and non-mirroring mode, if the
threshold of correctable errors is crossed
within the window.
■Invalid firmware image detected during boot
up or firmware update.
Non-critical
The system is
operating in a
degraded state
with an
impending failure
warning.
However, the
system is still
functioning.
~1 Hz blinkAmber
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Table 1-6 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
Fatal alarm – system has failed or shutdown:
■CPU CATERR signal asserted
■MSID mismatch detected (CATERR also
asserts for this case)
■CPU0 is missing
■CPU Thermal Trip
■No power – power fault
■DIMM failure when there is only one DIMM
present; no other good DIMM memory
present
■Runtime memory uncorrectable error in
non-redundant mode.
■DIMM Thermal Trip or equivalent
■BMC/Video memory test failed (Chassis ID
shows blue/solid-on for this condition)
■SBB Thermal Trip or equivalent
■240VA fault
■Both uBoot BMC FW images are bad
(Chassis ID shows blue/solid-on for this
condition)
■Fatal Error in processor initialization:
■Processor family not identical
■Processor model not identical
■Processor core/thread counts not identical
■Processor cache size not identical
■Unable to synchronize processor
frequency
■Unable to synchronize QPI link frequency
■BMC fail authentication with non-recoverable
condition, system hang at T-1; boot PCH
only, system hang; PIT failed, system
lockdown.
Critical,
non-recoverable
– System is
halted
Solid onAmber
About the Power button LED states
The following table provides a description of each power state.
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Table 1-7 Power button LED states
DescriptionLEDPower ModeState
The system power is off, and the
BIOS has not initialized the chipset.
OffNon-ACPIPower - off
The system power is on and the
green Power button LED is active.
OnNon-ACPIPower - on
The system and the operating
system are up and running.
Steady onACPI
(Advanced
Configuration and
Power Interface)
S0
Mechanical is off and the operating
system has not saved any context
to the hard disk drive.
OffACPI
(Advanced
Configuration and
Power Interface)
S5
About the 5260 Appliance rear panel
The rear panel of the appliance has several access ports and other features, which
are displayed in the following figures.
Figure 1-4 Veritas 5260 Appliance rear panel and connectors
Table 1-8 Veritas 5260 Appliance rear panel features and connectors
FunctionNumber
Power Supply 1 and Power Supply 2 - Dual, redundant, and hot-swappable
power supply modules
1,2
DB-15 VGA monitor connector3
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