Installation Requirements; Safety Requirements; General Site Requirements; Equipment Clearances - HP StorageWorks P9000 - Disk Arrays Manual

3 Installation requirements

Safety requirements

Safety requirements and guidelines are covered in

General site requirements

The customer site must accommodate the delivery and movement of the equipment from the receiving
dock to the installation location in the data center.

Equipment clearances

Receiving area: The receiving dock, storage area, and receiving area must be large enough to
allow movement of and access to crated or packed equipment. The dimensions of a shipping crate
for a single rack are shown in the following table.
Table 1 P9500 shipping crate dimensions
Item
Shipping crate, single rack
NOTE: P9500 disk array racks are shipped in one of three standard packaging configurations:
Environmental pack - This packaging configuration consists of stretch wrap over corner
protectors. This packaging is used for most shipments within the USA that are shipped directly
from the factory to the customer. HP uses special carriers with a dedicated fleet of trucks and
specially trained personnel.
Full packaging - This packaging configuration consists of a pallet, wooden loading ramp,
inner packaging, and outer corrugated carton assembly. This packaging is used for typical
packaging used in EMEA and for indirect ground shipments in USA and Canada.
Full packaging with wooden crate - This packaging configuration consists of full packaging
and encased in a wooden crate. This packaging is used for typical packaging for air freight
shipments from USA.
Other areas: The hallways, doorways, ramps, and elevators must be large enough to allow a
single unpacked rack to be moved to the installation location. Unless the distance between the
receiving dock and the data center is very long, P9500 disk arrays are typically unpacked in the
receiving area and the individual racks with pre-installed equipment are rolled on their casters to
the data center. The following table provides the dimensions of the P9500 disk array.
Table 2 P9500 single rack dimensions
Item
Single rack

Equipment weight

The floors, elevators, and ramps must be able to support the weight of the delivered equipment as
it is moved to the installation location. Spreader plates may be required to distribute the load and
protect the floor as the equipment is moved from the receiving area to the installation location.
Consult the system bill of materials to establish the anticipated summary weights.
The weight of the equipment depends on the disk array configuration. The weight for a fully
configured disk array can reach 8907 pounds/4040 kilograms. The following table provides
weights of typical system configurations.
10 Installation requirements
Height
90 in./2286 mm
Height
79 in./2006 mm
"Safety requirements" (page
Width
41 in./1041 mm
Width
23.6 in./600 mm (add 0.4
in/10mm for side panels)
8).
Depth
54 in./1371 mm
Depth
45 in./1 145 mm (includes
doors)