IBM 9008-22L, Site And Hardware Planning

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Supported PDU power cords
Find out which power distribution unit (PDU) power cords are supported for your system.
Planning for cables
Learn how to develop plans for cabling your server and devices.
Cable management
These guidelines ensure that your system and its cables have optimal clearance for maintenance and
other operations. The guidelines also provide guidance in correctly cabling your system and using the
appropriate cables.
The following guidelines provide cabling information for installing, migrating, relocating, or upgrading your
system:
• Position drawers in racks to allow enough space, where possible, for cable routing on the bottom and
top of the rack, and between drawers.
• Shorter drawers must not be placed between longer drawers in the rack (for example, placing a 19-inch
drawer between two 24-inch drawers).
• When a specific cable plugging sequence is required, for example, for concurrent maintenance
(symmetric multiprocessing cables), label the cables and note the sequence order.
• To facilitate cable routing, install cables in the following order:
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