Installing Storage Devices (Delivery by Bay)

Prerequisites

An installation position has been planned for each bay. Figure 9-1 shows the bay base dimensions.

Figure 9-1 Bay base dimensions

Procedure

1. Use a wrench to move the leveling feet to the highest position, as shown in Figure 9-2.
   Figure 9-2 Moving the leveling feet to the highest position
   

   When the leveling feet are in the highest position, the maximum climbing angle of a bay is 10 degrees, as shown in Figure 9-3.

   Figure 9-3 Maximum climbing angle of a bay
   
   • Do not move a bay from a flat ground to a slope with a tilt angle greater than 10 degrees, because doing so may scratch the leveling feet or even cause the bay to fall down.
   • If a bay cannot be moved to the customer's equipment room because stairs exist, doors are not high enough, the bearing capacity of floors is insufficient, or there is a slope greater than 10 degrees along the passageway, follow instructions in Disassembling and Re-installation Guide to move the bay to the designated location.

2. Optional: Route SAS cables, network cables, optical fibers, and active optical cables (AOCs) from sides or top of the bays. You can also route them underfloor if there are cabling holes on the floor.
   • Routing cables from cable holes on the two sides of a bay

     Perform this procedure only when your storage system is configured with system bays and disk bays. In this case, there is one system bay and one disk bay placed beside each other. You need to remove the system bay side panel against the disk bay and the disk bay side panel against the system bay before installation so that cables can be routed between the two bays, as shown in Figure 9-4. If there is no disk bay, skip this step.

   Figure 9-4 Routing cables from cable holes on the two sides of a bay
   
   1. Insert the key delivered with the bay to any of the two keyholes on the side panel and turn the key clockwise to open the lock, and then do the same for the other keyhole, as instructed in step 1 in Figure 9-5.
      Figure 9-5 Removing side panels
      

      Locks on the front and rear doors and the side panels use the same key.

   2. Pull the handle below the keyhole to detach the side panel's upper part from the bay, as instructed in step 2 in Figure 9-5.
   3. Remove the side panel from the bay, as instructed in step 3 in Figure 9-5.
   • Routing cables on the top of the bay (see Figure 9-6)
   Figure 9-6 Routing cables on the top of a bay
   

3. Move the bay to the planned position.
4. Use a wrench to move the leveling feet down until the wheels can rotate horizontally without touching the ground, as shown in Figure 9-7.
   Figure 9-7 Moving the leveling feet down
   

5. Optional: Connect adjacent bays using connecting plates.
   1. Open the front and rear doors of the bays.
   2. Install connecting plates.
      • Use two connecting plates between each two adjacent bays (one on the front side of the two bays and one on the rear side).
      • Connecting plates are delivered with bays and can be found at the bottom of the bay near the rear door.

      There are two recesses at the junctions between a bay and its doors, as shown in Figure 9-8. Move a connecting plate through a recess, and then use screws to fix one end of the connecting plate onto a bay and the other end onto the adjacent bay. Perform the same operations to install other connecting plates.

      Figure 9-8 Installation positions of connecting plates
      

   3. Close the front and rear doors of the combined bays.

      Gently press the door plate, rotate the door handle clockwise, and spin down the door handle vertically to lock the door.

   Do not forcibly close the door if any problem occurs. Contact Huawei technical support.