Document Outline

• Safety Summaries
  • General Safety Summary
    • Injury Precautions
      • Use Proper Power Cord
      • Ground the Product
      • Do Not Operate Without Covers
      • Do Not operate in Wet/Damp Conditions
      • Do Not Operate in an Explosive Atmosphere
      • Avoid Exposed Circuitry
    • Product Damage Precautions
      • Use Proper Power Source
      • Provide Proper Ventilation
      • Do Not Operate With Suspected Failures
  • Safety Terms and Symbols
    • Terms in This Manual
    • Terms on the Product
    • Symbols on the Product
  • Service Safety Summary
    • Do Not Service Alone
    • Disconnect Power
    • Use Care When Servicing With Power On
  • Certifications and Compliances
    • Canadian Certified Power Cords
    • FCC Emission Control
    • Canadian EMC Notice of Compliance
    • Canadian Certified AC Adapter
    • EN55022 Class A Warning
    • FCC Emission Limits
    • Manufacturer's Declaration of Conformity
    • ATTENTION
• Preface
  • About this manual
    • Using the Profile XP Documentation Set
    • Manual Descriptions
    • How this manual is organized
  • Getting more information
    • On-line manuals
  • Grass Valley Group Product Support
    • United States and Canada
    • Europe
    • Asia and South America
    • World Wide
• About the PFC500/E
  • PFC500/E components
  • Chassis
    • Midplane
    • Front door
    • RAID Controllers (RCs)
    • Disk modules
    • Disk drives
    • Drive carrier
  • Power supplies (PSs)
  • Drive fan pack
  • Configurations
  • What next?
• Installing a PFC500/E
  • Requirements
    • Site requirements
      • Power
      • Cooling
    • Cabling requirements
    • Addressing requirements
      • FCAL address ID
      • Chassis address (CA)
  • Installing a PFC500/E in a cabinet
    • Determining the rail mounting positions
    • Attaching the mounting rails
    • Sliding PFC500/E onto rails
    • Setting addresses and connecting cables
  • PFC500/E powerup and initialization
  • PFC500/E powerdown
  • Binding disk modules into groups
• Servicing and upgrading a PFC500/E
  • Hot swapping components
  • Monitoring PFC500/E status
  • Handling CRUs
    • Power issues and CRUs
    • Avoiding electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage
      • Emergency procedures (without an ESD kit)
    • Precautions when removing, installing, or storing CRUs
  • Replacing or adding a disk module
  • Replacing all disk modules in a PFC500/E
  • Removing an RC or an RC filler module
  • Installing or removing the RC memory module
  • Installing an RC or an RC filler module
  • Replacing the drive fan pack
  • Replacing or adding a power supply module
• Technical specifications and operating limits
  • Technical specifications
    • ac power requirements
    • Size and weight
    • Drive type
      • Disk module address
    • RC FC-AL interface
    • Copper cabling
    • Standards certification and compliance
      • Safety standards
      • EMI standards
      • Fibre Channel related standards
  • Operating limits
  • Shipping and storage requirements
• Glossary
• Index