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Chapter 6. Delivery and installation requirements
You must ensure that you properly plan for the delivery and installation of your storage system.
This information provides the following planning information for the delivery and installation of your
storage system:
• Planning for delivery of your storage system
• Planning the physical installation site
• Planning for power requirements
• Planning for network and communication requirements
For more information about the equipment and documents that IBM includes with storage system
shipments, see Appendix C, "IBM equipment and documents ," on page 127.
Delivery requirements
Before you receive your storage system shipment, ensure that the final installation site meets all delivery
requirements.
Attention: Customers must prepare their environments to accept the storage system based on
this planning information, with assistance from an IBM Advanced Technical Services (ATS)
representative or a technical service representative. The final installation site within the computer
room must be prepared before the equipment is delivered. If the site cannot be prepared before
the delivery time, customers must make arrangements to have the professional movers return to
finish the transportation later. Only professional movers can transport the equipment. The
technical service representative can minimally reposition the frame at the installation site, as
needed to complete required service actions. Customers are also responsible for using
professional movers in the case of equipment relocation or disposal.
Acclimation
Server and storage equipment (racks and frames) must be gradually acclimated to the surrounding
environment to prevent condensation.
When server and storage equipment (racks and frames) is shipped in a climate where the outside
temperature is below the dew point of the destination (indoor location), there is a possibility that water
condensation can form on the cooler inside and outside surfaces of the equipment when the equipment is
brought indoors.
Sufficient time must be allowed for the shipped equipment to gradually reach thermal equilibrium with
the indoor environment before you remove the shipping bag and energize the equipment. Follow these
guidelines to properly acclimate your equipment:
• Leave the system in the shipping bag. If the installation or staging environment allows it, leave the
product in the full package to minimize condensation on or within the equipment.
• Allow the packaged product to acclimate for 24 hours.
external or internal to the product) after 24 hours, acclimate the system without the shipping bag for an
additional 12 - 24 hours or until no visible condensation remains.
• Acclimate the product away from perforated tiles or other direct sources of forced air convection to
minimize excessive condensation on or within the equipment.
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Unless otherwise stated by product-specific installation instructions.
Note: Condensation is a normal occurrence, especially when you ship equipment in cold-weather
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these circumstances. When sufficient time is provided to allow the hardware to gradually acclimate to the
indoor environment, there should be no issues with long-term reliability of the product.
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products are tested and verified to withstand condensation that is produced under
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