INSTALLING THE VTL VALUE APPLIANCE IN AN EQUIPMENT RACK
1.Before you start, select the lowest possible position in the rack, and deploy the rack’s anti-tilt bar.
A top-heavy system tips over easily. So always load equipment into a rack from the bottom up and always place the heaviest equipment as low as possible. Always use the anti-tilt bar to keep the rack from tipping during installation. See the service label on the VTL Value appliance cover and/or the label on the rack.
2.Place the paper, rack-mount template (E below) in the selected position.
The rack-mount template ships with the slide-rail assemblies. It is the same height as the appliance (four rack-units—4U) and is marked with four arrows that show the location of the rail mounting screws. In a rack with 3 mounting holes per rack unit (as in the illustration), the template covers 12 holes.
4 U
F
3.Use the arrows on the template to select the rack mounting hole that will take the top slide-rail mounting screw (F above).
In the illustration above, the installed position of the slide rail is shown in pale gray.
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