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Installation Procedures - All Deployments
Step 2: Prepare your site
To ensure continuous, safe, and reliable operation of your equipment, place your
system in an approved environment. You must provide adequate physical space,
ventilation, and power.
In addition to the following discussion, see
on page 27 for a detailed list of site requirements.
Provide adequate structural support for the floor
Calculate the total weight of your equipment and verify that your site can support
the weight.
For HP ProLiant server environments, consider using Rack Builder, a software
tool that provides a simplified method to planning and configuring racks and
rack-mountable products. Rack Builder is available on the Options tab of the
ProLiant Home page of the HP servers web site at
http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv/servers.html.
Provide adequate clearance space and ventilation
Be sure to provide adequate clearance around the front and back of the racks.
Provide at least 25 inches (63.5 cm) in the front of the rack to allow the doors to
open fully and provide at least 30 inches (76.2 cm) in the rear of the rack to allow
for servicing and airflow.
If there are unused spaces in your rack, attach blanking panels across those empty
spaces, to force the airflow through the components instead of through the open
spaces.
Provide adequate and redundant sources of power
Make sure that you have two high-line power feeds installed near your computer.
These two power sources usually come from the same external power grid, but
occasionally may originate from different grids or even different sources entirely.
For protection against a power-source failure, obtain and include in your
installation two Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS.)
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