Planning for a FlashSystem 9500R rack solution
Plan to order FlashSystem 9500R control enclosures and optional 2U or 5U expansion enclosures that are preinstalled with two SAN switches in an FlashSystem 9500R rack solution.
Read through all of the planning and installation topics to understand your options when you order the rack solution.
Use IP connectivity of Fibre Channel switches and power distribution units (PDUs) worksheet to specify IP configuration details for SAN switches and PDUs. IBM® Lab Services uses the worksheet to connect the Fibre Channel switches to your Ethernet management network. To monitor power usage, the IBM Intelligent Switched Power Distribution Unit Plus (PDU+) PDUs also require connection to your Ethernet network.
Complete other customer worksheets, such as the Planning worksheets. The worksheets provide information that is needed by the IBM SSR and by IBM Lab Services. The IBM SSR and IBM Lab Services use the information to connect each control enclosure to the management network and to initially configure the clustered system.
- 4983-AH8 with two control enclosures
- 4666-AH8 with two control enclosures
Components that include the control enclosures, two Fibre Channel switches, two PDUs, and optional 2U or 5U expansion enclosures are preinstalled in the rack. When you order 5U expansion enclosures, the drives to populate the 5U expansion enclosures are in separate packaging and require IBM SSR installation into the expansion enclosures.