Hitachi G1500 - General Site Requirements; Equipment Clearances; Equipment Weight

Preinstallation checklist Yes No
Dust, pollution, and
particulate contamination
Does the data center provide adequate acoustic insulation to
oper
ate the stor
age system?
Oper
ational Requir
ements
See
Operational requirements (on page 82) .
Does the data center provide a LAN for Device Manager - Storage
Navigator?
Does the location meet the cable length requirements for the front-
end dir
ectors?
Does the location meet the r
equir
ements for attaching e
xternal
storage?
General site requirements
The customer site must accommodate the delivery and movement of the equipment
from the receiving dock to the installation location in the data center.
Equipment clearances
Receiving area
The receiving dock, storage area, and receiving area must be large enough to allow
movement of and access to crated or packed equipment.
Other areas
The hallways, doorways, ramps and elevators must be wide enough to allow a single
unpacked rack to be moved to the installation location. If there is insucient space for
unpacking, the stor
age systems ar
e typically unpack
ed in the r
eceiving area and the
individual racks with pre-installed equipment are rolled into the data center. For
information about rack dimensions, refer to the Hitachi Universal V2 Rack Reference Guide.
Equipment weight
The oors, elevators, and ramps must be able to support the weight of the delivered
equipment as it is moved to the installation location. Spreader plates can be a
prerequisite for distributing the load and protecting the oor as the equipment is moved
from the receiving area to the installation location. Consult the system bill of materials to
establish the approximate weight of the equipment. See the next paragraph for
information about calculating the exact weight of the equipment.
General site requirements
Chapter 4: Site preparation specications
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