Chapter 1. Before You Begin The Installation - IBM Flex System V7000 Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Before you begin the installation

The Installation Guide contains a set of instructions to help you unpack and install
your system. The guide is divided into three chapters. The steps in the first chapter
involve verifying your order, becoming familiar with the hardware component
terminology, and ensuring that you have met the environmental requirements. The
steps in the second chapter involve installing the hardware and attaching the SAS
cables. The final chapter helps you create your configuration file and access the
management GUI. The management GUI guides you through the initial
configuration process.
See the following website for the available translated versions of the Installation
Guide:
www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/overview/hardware/puresystems/
pureflex_system/storage_node/flex_system_v7000
Occasionally you are referred to topics in the Flex System V7000 Storage Node
Information Center. A copy of the Flex System V7000 Storage Node Information
Center is on the CD that is included in your shipping order.
Important information:
1. The guide assumes that you have read the planning information regarding your
2. Ensure that you have available any cables that you are supplying.
IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Information Center
The most current information for Flex System V7000 Storage Node is available in
the IBMFlex System V7000 Storage Node Information Center at
ralfss21.raleigh.ibm.com:8099/help/index.jsp. If you are unable to access the
internet, there is a copy of the information center on the software CD that was
shipped with the product, it contains the environmental notices, the publication
PDFs, and the information center content. Insert the CD into a Windows based
system, it automatically starts.
This documentation steps you through setting up a system
v Setting up a new system that consists of installing a control enclosure only. In
v Setting up a new system that consists of installing a control enclosure and
v Adding an expansion enclosure to an existing system. In this case, you initially
v Adding another control enclosure to an existing system either by itself or with
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physical environment that is available from the Flex System V7000 Storage
Node Information Center.
this case, you are not installing any expansion enclosures.
installing one or more expansion enclosures.
installed a control enclosure or installed a control enclosure and one or more
expansion enclosures and you want to add an expansion enclosure to your
existing system. If you are adding an expansion enclosure to an existing system,
you do not need to power off the system. You can add an expansion enclosure
while the system is operational.
one or more expansion enclosures. If you are adding another control enclosure
to an existing system, you do not need to power off the system. You can add
another control enclosure while the system is operational.
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