Chapter 1. Before you begin the installation
Before you can begin installing your system, you must unpack and verify your order and make other
preparations.
This topic contains a set of instructions to help you unpack your shipping order and install your system.
The first steps involve verifying your order, becoming familiar with the hardware component terminology,
and ensuring that you have met the environmental requirements. The final steps involve installing the
hardware and attaching the data cables and power cords.
Important information:
• This guide presumes that you have read the planning information regarding your physical environment
that is available in the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Cloud Object Storage System
™
.
• This topic assumes that you have read the planning information regarding your physical environment.
• Ensure that any cables that you are supplying are available for installation.
Be familiar with the following information
• See “Caution notices for the system” on page xiv and “Danger notices for the system ” on page xix for a
summary of the situations that can be potentially hazardous to you. Before installing, read and
understand the following caution and danger statements.
• Use safe practices when lifting. The fully populated enclosure weighs about 37 kg (82 lbs). At least
three people are required to lift and install the enclosure into the rack or to remove an enclosure from
the rack.
CAUTION: Use safe practices when lifting.
(27)
Also keep in mind that a rack full of equipment is extremely heavy.
DANGER: Heavy equipment–personal injury or equipment damage might result if mishandled.
(D006)
• The following general precautions should be observed, even though the power-on steps differ slightly
from the directions that you will follow for this product:
DANGER: When working on or around the system, observe the following precautions:
Electrical voltage and current from power, telephone, and communication cables are hazardous.
To avoid a shock hazard: If IBM supplied the power cord(s), connect power to this unit only with
the IBM provided power cord. Do not use the IBM provided power cord for any other product. Do
not open or service any power supply assembly. Do not connect or disconnect any cables or
perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm.
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The product might be equipped with multiple power cords. To remove all hazardous
voltages, disconnect all power cords. For AC power, disconnect all power cords from their AC
power source. For racks with a DC power distribution panel (PDP), disconnect the customer’s
DC power source to the PDP.
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