IBM 9835-415, Deployment Manual

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1. IBM FlashSystem A9000R storage system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Grid element – 2 grid controllers and 1 flash enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Fully-populated IBM FlashSystem A9000R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. Minimally-populated IBM FlashSystem A9000R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Front of a flash enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Rear of a flash enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. Front of a grid controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Rear of a grid controller with FC configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Rear of a grid controller with 10 Gb Ethernet configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. Rear-door heat exchanger option kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11. Clearance requirements for servicing the FlashSystem A9000R rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12. Bottom rack dimensions and castor placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
13. Raised floor requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14. Typical performance of a rear-door heat exchanger, 32 kW heat load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
15. Typical performance of a rear-door heat exchanger, 20 kW heat load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
16. Cooling distribution unit that uses off-the-shelf supplier solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
17. Cooling distribution unit that uses a water chiller unit to provide conditioned water . . . . . . . . . 46
18. Cooling distribution unit that uses a fabricated facilities solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
19. Primary and secondary cooling loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
20. Typical central manifold (at a central location for multiple water circuits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
21. Typical extended manifold (located along aisles between racks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
22. Raised-floor hose management example 1: hose exit through floor tile at the door hinge . . . . . . . . 52
23. Raised-floor hose management example 2: tile cutout size and position . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
24. Raised-floor and non-raised-floor hose management example 2: loop under the rack with door closed 54
25. Raised floor and non-raised floor hose management example 2: loop under the rack with door open . . . 55
26. Non-raised floor hose requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
27. Eaton-Williams cooling distribution unit features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
28. Utility patch panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
29. Crossing Fibre Channel grid controller ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
30. Fibre Channel port numbering on the grid controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
31. iSCSI port numbering on the grid controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
32. Maximum tilt for a packaged rack is 10 degrees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
33. Remote support components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
34. IBM Call Home and Call Home Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
35. Machine type and model, and serial number label on front of rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
36. Machine type and model, and serial number on rear of rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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