Remove the chassis from the rack

WARNING: The chassis is very heavy. To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to the equipment:
  • Observe local occupational health and safety requirements and guidelines for manual material handling.
  • Remove all installed components from the chassis before installing or moving the chassis.
  • Use caution and get help to lift and stabilize the chassis during installation or removal, especially when the chassis is not fastened to the rack.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to the equipment, you must adequately support the chassis during installation and removal.
WARNING: Always use at least two people to lift the chassis into the rack. If the chassis is being loaded into the rack above chest level, a third person must assist with aligning the chassis with the rails while the other two people support the weight of the chassis.
CAUTION: Before installing the chassis into the rack or removing the chassis from the rack, Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends removing the nodes, the drives, and the power supplies. Because a fully populated chassis is heavy, removing these components facilitates moving the chassis.
Procedure
  1. Power down all nodes.
  2. Disconnect all peripheral cables from the nodes and chassis.
    IMPORTANT: Label the drives before removing them. The drives must be returned to their original locations.
  3. Remove all nodes from the chassis.
  4. If installed, remove the security bezel.
  5. Remove all drives.
  6. If installed, remove the RCM module.
  7. Remove all power supplies.
  8. Loosen the thumbscrews and extend the chassis from the rack.
    Removing the chassis from the rack
  9. Remove the chassis from the rack.

    For more information, see the documentation that ships with the rack mounting option.

  10. Place the chassis on a flat surface.