Overhead cable management (top-exit bracket)
Overhead cable management requires the optional top-exit bracket (Feature Code 1401) for managing your Fibre and Ethernet cables. This feature is an alternative to the standard bottom-exit.
The installation planning, cable length, and the storage-system location in relation to the cable entry point are critical to the successful installation.
Figure 1 illustrates the locations for fiber cables, Ethernet
cables, and mainline power cables. The following notes provide more information about the
color-coded cable routing and components in Figure 1.
- 1 Customer Fibre Channel host cables. The Fibre Channel host cables, shown in red and dark blue, are routed through the black plastic cable guides at the top of the rack and behind the bottom rear of each I/O enclosure pair.
- 2 Network Ethernet cables. The network Ethernet cables, shown in light blue, are routed as shown. The four customer network connections in the rack are cable ends that hang free. They are not installed in a sheet metal bracket. Each cable is labeled as shown in Table 1.
- 3 Mainline power cords. Two or four top-exit mainline power cords for each rack, shown in green, are routed during the installation.
Notes:
- The customer is required to provide and pretest for safety the power outlets (for connecting power cords) within the specified distance.
- Fibre Channel host cables and customer Ethernet cable connections to the HMCs are internally routed and connected by a technical service representative.
- All remaining cables are internally routed and connected by a technical service representative.
