About the Veritas 5U84
Storage Shelves
This chapter includes the following topics:
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About Veritas 5350 Appliance storage shelves
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About the 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf and 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf rear
components
About Veritas 5350 Appliance storage shelves
Veritas offers two external storage shelf models for the Veritas 5350 Appliance.
These include the:
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Veritas 5U84 Primary Storage Shelf (required)
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Veritas 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf (optional)
Both of the 5U84 Storage Shelf chassis include a set of common internal core
components, along with a set of plug-in modules.
The core components include:
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Two sliding disk drawers that contain Disk Drive In Carrier (DDIC) modules
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A front operations panel
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A front bezel
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Mid-plane printed circuit boards (PCB) that interface with controllers on the 5U84
Primary Storage Shelf and the 5U84 Expansion Storage Shelf.
In addition to the core components, the storage shelves also incorporate the following
plug-in modules:
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Two 12Gb SAS-3 RAID controller modules (
5U84 Primary Storage Shelf only
)
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