Introduction 5
Audience.........................................................................................................6
Shipping Methods...........................................................................................6
Overview of installing an EMC cabinet................................................ 6
Overview of installing in a customer cabinet.......................................6
Prepare your system 9
Before you begin........................................................................................... 10
Site requirements..........................................................................................11
Unpack your system 13
Unpacking and verifying your system............................................................ 14
Removing the SPE from the shipping container..............................................18
Assemble components in your cabinet 19
Arranging components in the cabinet............................................................ 20
Installing rails............................................................................................... 21
Installing the SPE SPS rails...............................................................21
Installing the SPE rails......................................................................22
Installing the DAE 0 SPS rails........................................................... 23
Installing the rails for DAE 0............................................................. 23
Installing components...................................................................................25
Installing components of the SPE standby power supply.................. 25
Installing the storage processor enclosure....................................... 30
Installing the DAE 0 standby power supply (SPS)..............................35
Installing disk-array enclosure 0.......................................................35
Cable your system 39
Cabling the Standby Power Supply to the SP serial ports............................... 40
Attaching storage processors to the network................................................. 41
Cabling the vault SPS to DAE 0...................................................................... 41
Cabling the SPs to DAE 0............................................................................... 42
Power up 47
Connecting or verifying power cables............................................................ 48
Connecting or verifying the gray power cables for PDU A................................48
Connecting or verifying the black power cables for PDU B..............................49
Verifying system status................................................................................. 50
Verify storage processor enclosure status........................................ 50
Verify SPS status..............................................................................51
Verify DAE 0 status...........................................................................52
Add additional storage 55
Disk-array enclosure types............................................................................ 56
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
CONTENTS
EMC VNX Series VNX8000 Block Installation Guide 3