
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
RX300
S8
Contents
14.6.3.2
Swapping processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
14.6.4
Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
15
Conversion configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
15.1
Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
15.1.1
Supported conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
15.1.2
SAS cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
15.2
Basic Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
15.2.1
Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
15.2.2
Removing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
15.2.3
Removing HDD cages and front panel cage . . . . . . . . . . 444
15.2.4
Installing HDD cage and front panel cage . . . . . . . . . . . 445
15.2.5
Installing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
15.2.5.1
Multicage in bay 4/5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
15.2.5.2
Panelhousing in bay 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
15.3
Converting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
15.3.1
Configuration 2 to configuration 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
15.3.2
Configuration 2 to configuration 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
15.3.3
Configuration 2 to configuration 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
15.3.4
Configuration 3 to configuration 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
15.3.5
Configuration 4 to configuration 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
15.3.6
Configuration 4 to configuration 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
15.3.7
Configuration 7 to configuration 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
15.4
Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
16
Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
16.1
List of used cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
16.2
Cabling plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
16.2.1
Configuration 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
16.2.2
Configuration 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
16.2.3
Configuration 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
16.2.4
Configuration 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
16.2.5
Configuration 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
16.2.6
Configuration 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
16.2.7
Configuration 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
16.2.8
Configuration 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
16.2.9
Modular LAN NCSI sideband cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
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