20 September 2002
PFR 500/E Instruction Manual
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Chapter
2
PFR500/E Installation Information
This chapter describes information you’ll need to install the PFR500 Fibre Channel
RAID Storage Chassis (PFR500/E). Major topics are:
•
Installation requirements
•
Installing a PFR500/E in an equipment rack
•
PFR500/E power-up and initialization
•
PFR500/E power-down
Installation requirements
This section describes the following requirements:
•
“Site requirements” on page 25
•
“Chassis address setting requirement” on page 26
•
“Cabling requirements” on page 27
•
“Binding disk modules into groups” on page 27
Site requirements
For proper PFR500/E operation, the installation site must conform to certain
environmental specifications. These are detailed below and in
Appendix A, “Technical
Specifications and Operating Limits”
.
Power
Refer to
“AC power requirements” on page 49
for AC power requirements. The values
indicate either the values for the power cord of a PFR500/E with a single power supply,
or the total values shared by the line cords of two power supplies in the same PFR500/
E, with the division between the power cords and supplies at the current sharing ratio. If
one of the two power supplies fails, the remaining supply and cord must support the full
load. You must use a rack mount cabinet with ac power distribution, and have main
branch ac distribution that can handle these values for the number of PFR500s and
PFR500Es that you will interconnect.
Cooling
Make sure your site has air conditioning of the correct size and placement to maintain
the specified ambient temperature range. The air conditioning must be able to handle the
requirements of the PFR500s and any connected PFR 500Es as indicated under
“Environmental limits” on page 50
.
