Installing Enclosures

Prerequisites

• Guide rails have been properly installed.
• The following installation tools and materials are ready:
  • Phillips screwdriver (M3 to M6)
  • ESD gloves
  • ESD clothes
  • ESD wrist strap

Precautions

• To avoid personal injury or device damage, arrange for four persons to carry and install a controller enclosure and three persons for a disk enclosure.
• If you remove disks to facilitate the movement and installation of the device, record the mapping between each disk and its slot in advance, so you can easily insert each disk back to its correct slot.
• Storage devices must be installed on adjustable guide rails. Stacking devices may damage them.

Procedure

1. Wear an ESD wrist strap, ESD gloves, and ESD clothes.
2. Remove the protective cover of the controller enclosure.
   1. Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the four M3 screws on the left of the protective cover for the controller enclosure, as shown in Figure 4-69.
      Figure 4-69 Removing the protective cover of the controller enclosure
      
   2. Repeat 2.a to remove the four M3 screws on the right of the protective cover, and place the removed M3 screws and protective cover into an ESD bag.

3. Slide the controller enclosure or disk enclosure into the cabinet and tighten the captive screws to secure it to the cabinet, as shown in Figure 4-70.

   The controller enclosure and disk enclosure are installed in the same way. The following uses the controller enclosure as an example.

   Figure 4-70 Installing a controller enclosure
   

4. (Optional) If disks have not been installed, install the disks into empty slots in sequence and then close the disk handles, as shown in Figure 4-71.
   • Before installing a disk, fully open its handle to ensure proper installation.
   • Insert the disk module into the slot by pushing the middle area of the disk module (as shown in arrow 1 in Figure 4-71) to ensure that the disk module is properly inserted into its position.
   Figure 4-71 Installing a disk (using a 2.5-inch disk as an example)
   

   Follow the following rules when installing disk modules in SAS and smart SAS disk enclosures:

   • Coffer disks must be configured in slot 0 to slot 3. Their types and capacities must be the same, and caution labels must be attached to them. The recommended priority for choosing the type of coffer disks is SSD > SAS > NL-SAS.
   • Non-coffer disks are installed from slot 4. The recommended sequence for installing non-coffer disks by type is as follows: SSD > SAS > NL-SAS.
     • When disk modules are of the same type but different capacities, you are advised to install those with smaller capacities in first slots.
     • When disk modules are of the same type and capacity, you are advised to install those with smaller rotating speeds in first slots.
   • The V5 F series storage systems support only SSDs.

5. (Optional) If interface modules have not been installed, install them according to the plan. Figure 4-72 shows how to install an interface module.
   Figure 4-72 Installing an interface module
   

Follow-up Procedure

If there are vacant disk slots after all disks have been installed, install filler panels into the vacant slots for proper heat dissipation. The method of installing a filler panel is the same as that of installing a disk.