Installing the shipping screws and brackets on a rack-installed server

WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury from hot surfaces, allow the drives and the internal system components to cool before touching them.
WARNING: This server 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 handling.
  • Reduce the weight of the server by removing the drives and power input modules before installing or removing the server from the rack.
  • Obtain adequate assistance to lift and stablize the server during installation or removal. Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that a minimum of two people are required for installing or removing the server from the rack. A third person might be required to help align the server if the server is installed higher than chest level.
  • Use caution when installing or removing the server from the rack; it is unstable when not fastened to the rails.

If the server was originally delivered as a BTO shipment, perform the following steps. Before you perform this procedure, make sure that you have a T-15 Torx screwdriver available.

  1. Remove the shipping screws installed on the sides of the chassis
    Remove the shipping screws installed on the sides of the chassis
  2. Remove all installed power input modules.
  3. If a rear drive cage option is installed, remove all rear drives.
  4. Remove all the drives installed in the front drive cages 1 and 2.
  5. Install the server into the rack, and then tighten the rack ear thumbscrews.
    Install the server into the rack
  6. Install the chassis retention brackets on the non-shelf portion of the rack rail.
    Tightening the rack ear thumbscrews
  7. Reinstall all removed drives and power input modules.
  8. Install the shipping screws on the rack ears.
    Install the shipping on the rack
  9. Install the rear shipping brackets:

    The L and R markers on the shipping brackets help identify which one goes on the left and right sides of the server.

    1. Position the bracket so that the flanges rests firmly against the rack rail shelves.
      Position the bracket so that the flanges rests firmly against the rack rail shelves
    2. Install the bracket screws.
      Install the bracket screws
    3. Repeat steps a and b to install the bracket on the other side of the server.