Contents

 

Planning the installation.................................................................................................................

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Verifying the pallet contents ........................................................................................................................

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Rack requirements .....................................................................................................................................

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Rack-free environment requirements .............................................................................................................

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Warning, caution, and important messages..................................................................................................

8

Space and airflow requirements ................................................................................................................

10

Temperature requirements ........................................................................................................................

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Power requirements .................................................................................................................................

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Grounding requirements...........................................................................................................................

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Component and LED identification ................................................................................................

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Enclosure front components ......................................................................................................................

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Power supply bay numbering ..........................................................................................................

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Power supply LEDs.........................................................................................................................

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Device bay numbering ...................................................................................................................

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HP BladeSystem Insight Display components .....................................................................................

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Location Discovery Services ............................................................................................................

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Enclosure rear components .......................................................................................................................

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Fan bay numbering .......................................................................................................................

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Fan LED........................................................................................................................................

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Onboard Administrator components ................................................................................................

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HP c7000 Onboard Administrator with KVM components ..................................................................

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Interconnect bay numbering............................................................................................................

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Installation .................................................................................................................................

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Installation overview ................................................................................................................................

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Disassembling the enclosure .....................................................................................................................

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Rack-free installation ................................................................................................................................

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Rack installation ......................................................................................................................................

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Measuring with the rack template ....................................................................................................

25

Installing the rack rails....................................................................................................................

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Installing the enclosure into the rack .................................................................................................

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Installing the rear cage into the enclosure .........................................................................................

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Component installation ............................................................................................................................

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Installing a power supply................................................................................................................

29

Installing blades ............................................................................................................................

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Connecting locally to a server blade with video and USB devices ........................................................

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Installing fans................................................................................................................................

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Installing Onboard Administrator modules ........................................................................................

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Installing interconnect modules ........................................................................................................

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Cabling and powering up the enclosure ........................................................................................

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Cabling the enclosure ..............................................................................................................................

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Onboard Administrator cabling.......................................................................................................

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Enclosure link cabling ....................................................................................................................

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Cabling a PC to the enclosure service port........................................................................................

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Cabling the network to the enclosure ...............................................................................................

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