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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.2 Chassis Components
The chassis includes power supplies, fans and eight nodes. Each node is a separate system
containing a drawer with a motherboard and other components. Each node may be removed
from the chassis separately.
Installing and Removing the Node Drawers
The CSE-F418BC3 chassis contains eight individual motherboards in separate node drawers
(Figure 3-1). Each motherboard node controls a set of two internal fixed hard drives. Note
that if a motherboard node drawer is pulled out of the chassis, the hard drives associated
with that node will power down as well.
Figure 3-1. Installing and Removing the Node Drawers
Node 4
Node 8
Node 3
Node 7
Node 6
Node 5
Node 2
Node 1