Grass Valley PFR600/E - Manual (Page 3)

20 February 2004 PFR600/E Instruction Manual 3
Contents
Safety Summaries
Preface
About this manual.................................................................................................................9
Using the Profile XP documentation Set .........................................................................9
Manual descriptions.......................................................................................................10
How this manual is organized........................................................................................11
Getting more information ....................................................................................................12
On-line manuals ............................................................................................................12
Chapter 1 About the PFR 600 Series
PFR600 Series features.....................................................................................................15
PFR 600 features ...........................................................................................................16
Capacity and redundancy ..............................................................................................16
PFR600 Series components ..............................................................................................17
Chassis ..........................................................................................................................19
Midplane ........................................................................................................................19
Disk modules .................................................................................................................20
PFR 600/E circuit board modules...................................................................................21
PFR600 RAID Storage Chassis circuit board modules ............................................21
PFR600E RAID Expansion Chassis circuit board modules......................................24
Power supplies ..............................................................................................................25
Fan modules ..................................................................................................................25
Configurations ....................................................................................................................26
Chapter 2 PFR 600 Series Installation Information
Installation requirements ....................................................................................................27
Site requirements ..........................................................................................................27
Power........................................................................................................................27
Cooling......................................................................................................................27
Chassis address setting requirement ............................................................................28
Cabling requirements ....................................................................................................29
Binding disk modules into groups ..................................................................................30
Installing a PFR600/E in an equipment rack ......................................................................31
Unpacking the chassis...................................................................................................31
Installing the rack mounts ..............................................................................................32
Inserting the PFR600/E chassis in the rack ..................................................................34
Installing the chassis with drive the support bracket.................................................34
Installing chassis without the drive support bracket..................................................34
PFR600/E power-up and initialization ................................................................................36
Connecting electrical cables ..........................................................................................36
Powering-up the PFR600/E system ..............................................................................37
PFR600/E power-down ......................................................................................................38
Battery Backup recharge ....................................................................................................38
Chapter 3 Servicing the PFR 600 Series RAID
Maintenance procedures using GVG Disk Utility ...............................................................40
Monitoring PFR600 Series RAID status using NetCentral .................................................40
Interpreting disk module LEDs ...........................................................................................41
Interpreting rear panel status LEDs....................................................................................42
LBB 7-segment display codes ............................................................................................43
Removing and installing disk modules ...............................................................................44