16 October 2001
PFR 500/E Instruction Manual
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Contents
Safety Summaries
General Safety Summary .....................................................................................................5
Safety Terms and Symbols ..................................................................................................6
Service Safety Summary ......................................................................................................6
Certifications and Compliances ............................................................................................7
Preface
About this manual.................................................................................................................9
Using the Profile XP documentation set ..........................................................................9
Manual descriptions.......................................................................................................10
How this manual is organized........................................................................................11
Getting more information ....................................................................................................12
Grass Valley Group Web site ........................................................................................12
Other on-line documentation .........................................................................................12
Grass Valley Group Product Support .................................................................................13
Chapter 1
About the PFR 500/E
PFR500/E features.............................................................................................................15
Capacity and redundancy ..............................................................................................16
PFR500/E components ......................................................................................................16
Chassis ..........................................................................................................................18
Midplane ........................................................................................................................18
Disk modules .................................................................................................................19
Circuit board modules....................................................................................................20
PFR500E RAID Expansion Chassis circuit board modules......................................20
PFR500 RAID Storage Chassis circuit board modules ............................................21
Power supplies ..............................................................................................................22
Fan modules ..................................................................................................................23
Configurations ....................................................................................................................23
Chapter 2
PFR 500/E Installation Information
Installation requirements ....................................................................................................25
Site requirements ..........................................................................................................25
Power........................................................................................................................25
Cooling......................................................................................................................25
Chassis address setting requirement ............................................................................26
Cabling requirements ....................................................................................................27
Binding disk modules into groups ..................................................................................27
Installing a PFR500/E in an equipment rack ......................................................................28
Unpacking the Chassis ..................................................................................................28
Installing the rack mounts ..............................................................................................29
Inserting the PFR500/E chassis in the rack ..................................................................31
Installing the chassis with drive the support bracket.................................................31
Installing chassis without the drive support bracket..................................................31
PFR500/E power-up and initialization ................................................................................33
Connecting electrical cables ..........................................................................................33
Powering-up the system ................................................................................................33
PFR500/E power-down ......................................................................................................34
Battery Backup recharge ....................................................................................................34
Chapter 3
Servicing the PFR 500/E
Monitoring PFR500/E status ..............................................................................................36
