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Veritas™ 5350 Appliance
Product Description Guide

Veritas 5350 Appliance Product Description Guide
Last updated: 2021-06-11
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Chapter 1 About the Veritas 5350 Appliance .................................. 6
About the Veritas 5350 Appliance ...................................................... 6
Features and components of the appliance ......................................... 8
Locating the appliance serial number ................................................. 9
Compute node disk drive configurations ............................................ 10
About the compute node disk drive LEDs .................................... 11
About the compute node front panel USB port .................................... 12
About the compute node control panel .............................................. 13
About the System Status LED states .......................................... 14
About the Power button LED states ............................................ 18
About the compute node rear panel .................................................. 19
Appliance network interface card port assignments ............................. 21
Veritas 5350 Appliance I/O configuration options ................................. 22
Available PCIe-based I/O configurations ..................................... 23
Total I/O on-board and PCIe ports .............................................. 24
Available I/O configurations by slot for Veritas 5350 Appliance
installations ..................................................................... 24
RSP3GD016J storage adapter .................................................. 25
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN MCX4121A-ACAT Ethernet card
..................................................................................... 26
QLE2692 dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter .............. 27
Chapter 2 About the Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelves ................... 31
About Veritas 5350 Appliance storage shelves ................................... 31
Available appliance storage options ........................................... 32
About the Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelf disk drive drawers ................ 35
5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and the 5U84 Expansion Storage
Shelf control panel ............................................................ 47
About the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and 5U84 Expansion Storage
Shelf rear components ............................................................ 48
Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf RAID controllers ..................... 51
Veritas 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf Expansion I/O modules
..................................................................................... 55
Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelf cooling modules ................................ 58
5U84 Storage Shelf Power Supply Units ..................................... 59
Contents

Chapter 3 Veritas 5350 Appliance and 5U84 Storage Shelf
cables .............................................................................. 61
Power cables ............................................................................... 61
Network cable .............................................................................. 63
SAS-3 cable ................................................................................ 64
Twinaxial copper cables ................................................................. 65
Appendix A Technical specifications, Environmental/Protocol
standards, and Compliance standards ................. 67
Veritas 5350 compute node technical specifications ............................. 68
Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelf technical specifications ............................. 70
Environmental specifications ........................................................... 73
Protocol standards ........................................................................ 74
Regulatory, compliance, and certification information ........................... 75
Product regulatory compliance ........................................................ 76
Country approvals ........................................................................ 76
Product safety compliance ............................................................. 77
Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance ................................ 77
Product environmental compliance ................................................... 77
5Contents

About the Veritas 5350
Appliance
This chapter includes the following topics:
■About the Veritas 5350 Appliance
■Features and components of the appliance
■Locating the appliance serial number
■Compute node disk drive configurations
■About the compute node front panel USB port
■About the compute node control panel
■About the compute node rear panel
■Appliance network interface card port assignments
■Veritas 5350 Appliance I/O configuration options
About the Veritas 5350 Appliance
The Veritas 5350 Appliance is a media server solution designed for large workloads.
It provides high performance with multiple service offerings and gets deployed in
less than 60 minutes.
The Veritas 5350 appliance is available as a single-node or a two-node appliance.
The Veritas 5350 high availability (HA) configuration includes two compute nodes,
one required Primary Storage Shelf, and up to three optional Expansion Storage
Shelves.
1
Chapter

The Veritas 5350 Appliance supports the following software:
■Veritas Flex Appliance 2.0.1 and above
■NetBackup Appliance software release 4.0 (revised) and above
Note: This model uses a revised version of software release 4.0. This revised
software version contains specific support for the 5350 hardware and the related
software functionality that is not included in the previous 4.0 release. The
minimum supported software version for the 5350 appliance is the revised 4.0
version that is shipped with each unit. If a re-image is ever necessary, you must
use the revised 4.0 software version
The Veritas 5350 Appliance is a hardware and software storage system that scales
up to a total of 1,920TiB (2,111TB) of usable backup capacity. It consists of one
2U 5350 Appliance compute node and one required externally attached 5U84
Primary Storage Shelf, which is used for data storage purposes. By itself, the 5350
Appliance compute node does not provide internal disk space for data storage. You
can add up to three optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves if you require
additional data storage space.
Note: Total usable backup capacity depends on the hardware configuration you
purchase.
See “Available appliance storage options” on page 32.
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About the Veritas 5350 Appliance

SAS-3 cables connect the 5350 Appliance compute nodes to 5U84 Primary Storage
Shelf RAID controllers. SAS-3 cables also connect 5U84 Primary Storage Shelves
to the optional 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelves.
Features and components of the appliance
This section describes the features and components of the Veritas 5350 Appliances.
Table 1-1 Veritas 5350 Appliance features
Veritas 5350 Appliance systemTechnical
Specification
Dual 2nd Generation Intel®Xeon®Scalable ProcessorsProcessor
■Supports high-performance processors with low-power
consumption
■Provides high efficiency and performance
Performance and
capacity
Base memory capacity: 768 GB, expandable to 1.5 TB
Note: Higher memory capacities are capable depending on CPU
population.
Memory type: DDR4 RDIMM
Configuration:
■768 GB: 64 GB x 12 RDIMM modules on capacities less than
960 TB
■1536 GB: 64 GB x 24 RDIMM modules on capacities of 960
TB or greater
Note: If you want to upgrade your capacity to 960 TB or more,
you have to purchase a 768 GB memory upgrade kit.
Operating voltage: 1.2V
Configured clock speed: 2933 MHz
System memory (each
Appliance compute
node)
AdvancedDisk usable storage capacity: up to 1,920 TiB (2,111
TB)
MSDP storage capacity: up to 960TiB (1,056TB)
See “Available appliance storage options” on page 32.
Usable MSDP and
AdvancedDisk usable
storage capacity (TB)
YesSAS RAID mezzanine
card
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Features and components of the appliance

Table 1-1 Veritas 5350 Appliance features (continued)
Veritas 5350 Appliance systemTechnical
Specification
NoSAS RAID PCIe card
installed in a appliance
compute node PCIe
riser assembly
RAID1 (mirroring) and RAID6 (block level striping with double
distributed parity) are used as follows:
■RAID1: Appliance compute node system disks
■RAID6 and RAID10: 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and 5U84
Expansion Storage Shelf data storage disks
RAID levels
4
One required 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and three optional 5U84
Expansion Storage Shelves
See “Available appliance storage options” on page 32.
Maximum number of
storage shelves
4
Used to connect the Veritas Appliance
compute node to the 5U84 Primary
Storage Shelf
12 Gb SAS-3 ports
(PCIe-based)
I/O Ports
See “Available
PCIe-based I/O
configurations”
on page 23.
See “Total I/O on-board
and PCIe ports”
on page 24.
Up to 8, depending on the appliance
I/O configuration
10/25 GbE
Ethernet/iSCSI-capable
ports
(PCIe-based)
Up to six, depending on the appliance
I/O configuration
16 Gb Fibre Channel ports
(PCIe-based)
41Gb Ethernet ports
(on-board)
Locating the appliance serial number
A vertical bar on the rear panel of the appliance compute node contains the serial
number.
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Locating the appliance serial number

The appliance serial number is also located on a plastic pull-out tab directly above
the front disk drives.
Compute node disk drive configurations
The Veritas 5350 Appliance compute node contains three 1.92 TB SATA SSDs.
Each SSD is accessible from the compute node's front panel. An embedded RAID
controller on the compute node's mainboard configures two of the three SATA SSDs
into a RAID1 volume.
The two RAID1 volumes contain the appliance operating system, the operating
system swap file, the NetBackup application, and the logs. You can hot-swap one
of these disk drives at a time if a drive becomes problematic. However, you cannot
operate the appliance if both disk drives are removed.
The disk drives in slot 1 and slot 2 are configured as RAID1 with slot 3 as the hot
spare. If a disk drive in the RAID volume experiences a hardware error, the appliance
automatically initiates a RAID rebuild operation. During the rebuild operation, the
appliance dynamically accesses the hot-spare disk and uses it to rebuild the RAID
volume.
Figure 1-1 Veritas 5350 Appliance front disk drive assignments
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Compute node disk drive configurations

Table 1-2 Veritas 5350 Appliance compute node front panel disk drive
configurations
Disk drive roleDisk drive
size (TB)
RAID
level
Slot
Operating system and log volume1.92 TBRAID10, 1
Operating system/log hot spare1.92 TBRAID12
blank-RAID13-7
About the compute node disk drive LEDs
Each 5350 Appliance compute node disk drive module contains two LEDs on the
left side of each module.
Figure 1-2 5350 Appliance compute node disk drive module LEDs
Amber Status LED
Green Activity LED
The LED Status descriptions are described in the following table.
Table 1-3 5350 Appliance compute node disk drive LED Status descriptions
ConditionLED behaviorDescriptionNumber
No disk drive access and no disk drive
faults
OffAmber Status
LED
1
A disk drive fault has occurredSolid amber
A RAID rebuild is in progress (1Hz
blink)
Locating / identifying the disk drive
(4Hz blink)
Blinking amber
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Compute node disk drive configurations

Table 1-3 5350 Appliance compute node disk drive LED Status descriptions
(continued)
ConditionLED behaviorDescriptionNumber
Power on - the disk drive has spun
down
OffGreen Activity
LED
2
Power on - no disk drive activitySolid green
Power on - the disk drive is processing
a command
or
Power on - the disk drive is spinning
up
Blinking green
Note: Disk drive modules that do not contain disk drives also have LEDs. Although
there may not be disk drive activity, some colored lights may still be seen through
the disk modules.
About the compute node front panel USB port
The 5350 Appliance compute node front panel includes a USB 2.0-compliant port
that supports a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mb/second.
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About the compute node front panel USB port

About the compute node control panel
Figure 1-3 Control panel
A
B
C
G
F
D
E
Table 1-4 Control panel system LED descriptions
System informationLEDLabel
The Power button toggles the system on and off.
See “About the Power button LED states”
on page 18.
Power button with integrated
LED
A
The drive activity LED on the front panel indicates
drive activity from the on-board hard disk controllers
for the M.2 SSD (for security).
Drive Activity LEDB
The System ID button toggles the integrated ID LED
and the blue server board LED on and off.
The system ID LED identifies the system for
maintenance when it is racked with similar server
systems.
System ID button with
integrated LED
C
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About the compute node control panel

Table 1-4 Control panel system LED descriptions (continued)
System informationLEDLabel
The front control panel includes four activity LED
indicators for each on-board network interface
controller (NIC).
■NIC-1 represents network interface controller 1
■NIC-2 represents network interface controller 2
When network links are detected on the controllers,
the LEDs are activated and remain on. The LEDs
blink when network activity occurs, and the rate at
which they blink is determined by the amount of
network activity that occurs.
Network Activity LEDsD
When it is depressed, the NMI button puts the
appliance in a halt state, issues a non-maskable
interrupt (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.
NMI button (recessed, tool
required for use)
E
When depressed, the System Cold Reset button
re-boots and re-initializes the appliance.
System Cold Reset Button
(recessed, tool required for
use on non-storage models)
F
The System Status LED is bi-color indicator that uses
the colors green and amber to display the current
health of the appliance.
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 14.
System Status LEDG
About the System Status LED states
The System Status LED is a bi-color (Green/Amber) indicator that shows the current
health of the system. The appliance provides two locations for this feature. The first
location is on the Front Control Panel, while the second location is on the back edge
of the server board.
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About the compute node control panel

Figure 1-4 System Status LED control panel location
System
Status
LED
The following table provides a description of each LED state.
Table 1-5 System Status LED states
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
■System power is off (AC and/or DC)
■System is in EuP Lot6 Off Mode
■System is in S5 Soft-Off State
Not readyOff - The
system is not
operating.
No
color
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.
HealthySolid on (SO)Green
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Table 1-5 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
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
System degraded (continued):
■BMC booting Linux. (Indicated by Chassis ID
solid ON). System in degraded state (no
manageability). Control has been passed
from BMC uBoot to BMC Linux itself. It will
be in this state for 10-20 seconds.
■BMC Watchdog has reset the BMC.
■Power unit sensor offset for configuration
error is asserted.
■Hard disk drive HSC is off-line or degraded.
Degraded
(continued)
~1 Hz blinkGreen
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Table 1-5 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
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)
■Correctable memory error threshold has been
reached for a failing DIMM when the system
is operating in a non-redundant mode.
Non-critical
The system is
operating in a
degraded state
with an
impending failure
warning.
However, the
system is still
functioning.
~1 Hz blinkAmber
Fatal alarm – system has failed or shutdown:
■CPU CATERR signal asserted
■MSID mismatch detected (CATERR also
asserts for this case)
■CPU1 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.
Critical,
non-recoverable
– System is
halted
Solid onAmber
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Table 1-5 System Status LED states (continued)
DescriptionCriticalityStateColor
■Uncorrectable Runtime memory error in
non-redundant mode
■DIMM Thermal Trip or equivalent
■CPU ERR2 signal is asserted
■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
Critical,
non-recoverable
– System is
halted
Solid onAmber
About the Power button LED states
Figure 1-5 Power button control panel location
Power/Sleep
button
The following table provides a description of each power state.
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Table 1-6 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
DC power is still on. The operating
system has saved context and gone
into a level of low-power state.
Slow blinkACPIS1-S3
Mechanical is off. The operating
system has saved context to the
hard disk
OffACPIS4
Mechanical is off and the operating
system has not saved any context
to the hard disk drive.
OffACPIS5
About the compute node rear panel
The rear panel of the appliance compute node has several access ports and other
features.
The rear panel of the Veritas 5350 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.
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About the compute node rear panel

Figure 1-6 Veritas 5350 Appliance rear panel overview
Table 1-7 Veritas 5350 Appliance rear panel features and connectors
FunctionNumber
Power Supply 1 and Power Supply 2 - Dual, redundant, and hot-swappable
power supply modules
1
DB-15 VGA monitor connector2
Serial port - Serial connection for Veritas Technical Support use only3
Three stacked USB 3.0 Type A serial ports for general use4
IPMI port - An external RJ45 port used for appliance remote management
purposes
5
OCP 1Gbs Ports6
PCIe Riser # 17
PCIe Riser # 28
PCIe Riser # 39
Veritas appliances may include grounding studs in case your lab environment has
such a requirement. The studs are located on the rear panel of the appliance. You
can use standard grounding practices to connect grounding wires to the studs.
The serial number is located on a vertical bar on the rear panel of the appliance.
The ports on the rear panel are color-coded for easy identification.
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