Vanguard Managed Solutions 6500 PLUS Guidelines for Installing a Trim Card in a Modulus 8/18

Installing Nodes in Modulus Enclosures

Guidelines for Installing a TRIM Card in a Modulus 8/18

Consider the following if you install a TRIM card in a Modulus 8/18 enclosure:

Note

Before you add a TRIM card to an existing node, be sure the enclosure has room for it as described above. To make space, you may need to rearrange cards and backplanes, which requires a node shutdown first.

•A processor card with attached TRIM card requires four slots — two slots for the TRIM card and two for the processor card.

•You can attach a TRIM card only to the processor card in the lowest-numbered slot of a backplane (this is the master processor in a multi-processor node).

•There must be two empty slots beside the backplane next to the lowest-numbered processor card.

•The TRIM card rear filler panel covers the back of the two slots taken by the TRIM card. This rear panel, which has a cutout for the LAN port connectors, covers the TRIM card backplane (Figure 2-8). Two standard Modulus 8/18 front filler panels cover the front of the TRIM card’s slots (Figure 2-9).

•When installing in a Modulus 18 enclosure, a metal screen must be installed onto the Modulus 18 door to meet FCC requirements. See the “Preparing Modulus Enclosures for RFI Suppression” section on page 2-49.

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