Chapter 1 Hardware overview ............................................................. 8
About the appliance and the storage shelves ....................................... 8
Appliance disk drives ...................................................................... 9
About the 5250 Appliance control panel ............................................ 10
About the System Status LED states .......................................... 12
About the Power button LED states ............................................ 15
Appliance rear panel ..................................................................... 16
Storage shelf disk drives ................................................................ 17
Storage shelf control panel ............................................................. 18
Storage shelf rear panel ................................................................. 19
Cables ....................................................................................... 21
About IPMI configuration ................................................................ 21
Product documentation .................................................................. 23
Chapter 2 Preinstallation requirements .......................................... 24
Customer-provided environment and supplies .................................... 24
Appliance shipping container contents .............................................. 25
Storage shelf shipping container contents .......................................... 26
Best practices for rack installation .................................................... 26
Determining rack locations ............................................................. 27
Storage shelf rack requirements ...................................................... 28
Heat dissipation ........................................................................... 29
Verifying SAS-3 cable length ........................................................... 30
Prerequisites for IPMI configuration .................................................. 30
Chapter 3 S Series Appliance installation procedures ............... 32
Installing the storage shelf rack rails ................................................. 32
Installing the storage shelf into a rack ............................................... 34
Attaching the storage shelf bezel ..................................................... 35
Installing the appliance rack rails ..................................................... 36
Installing the appliance into a rack ................................................... 40
Understanding appliance and S Series Storage Shelf connections
........................................................................................... 41
Connecting an appliance to one storage shelf .................................... 44
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