Chapter 4. Planning For Installation; Preparing The Physical Environment For Your Ds6000 Series - IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Introduction And Planning Manual

Chapter 4. Planning for installation

Before you can start to set up your DS6000 series, you will want to verify that the
prerequisite conditions for the DS6000 series are met.
The following planning guidelines will help you identify and gather the information
required during the installation process.
1. Prepare your physical site to meet all area, environment, and power
2. Move the DS6000 series to your site. Ensure that you use safe practices when
3. Ensure that the floor area provides enough stability to support the weight of the
4. Ensure that you have adequate rack space for your hardware.
5. Assemble the tools and equipment that you will need for installation. This
6. Identify a management client server and ensure that it meets the hardware and
7. Gather the World Wide Port Names (WWPNs) of your open systems hosts that
8. Determine your storage configuration information, such as:

Preparing the physical environment for your DS6000 series

This section provides information you need to ensure that your physical site meets
the installation requirements for the DS6000 series.
Table 18 provides the dimensions and weight of either a fully configured Model
1750-511 or the Model 1750-EX1 expansion enclosure.
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requirements.
lifting.
fully configured DS6000 series and associated components.
includes the following items:
a. Power cords
b. Host fibre channel and Ethernet interface cables
c. Host SFPs
d. Fibre channel disk drives
e. Antistatic protection
f. The rack-mounting hardware that ships with the DS6000 series
g. The IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager CD, which includes the DS
Storage Manager software and firmware
h. Flathead screwdriver
operating system compatibility requirements.
you want to attach to the DS6000 series.
a. RAID levels
b. Arrays
c. LUN sizes
Table 18. Dimensions and weight for Model 1750-511 or Model 1750-EX1 expansion
enclosure
Height
5.25 inches 18.80 inches
(0.134 meters) (0.478 meters)
Width Depth
24.00 inches
(0.610 meters)
Maximum Weight
(fully configured)
109 lbs.
(49.5 kg)
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