Remove the server from the rack
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury from hot surfaces, allow the drives, power input modules, 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 server.
- Obtain adequate assistance to lift and stabilize 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.
- Back up all server data.
- Power down the server.
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Remove all power:
- Disconnect each power cord from the power source.
- Disconnect each power cord from the server.
- Disconnect all peripheral cables from the server.
- Remove all installed power input modules.
- If a rear drive cage option is installed, remove all rear drives.
- Remove all the drives installed in the front drive cages 1 and 2.
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Remove the
server from the
rack:
- Loosen the rack ear thumbscrews.
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Pull the thumbscrews to extend the
server out of the
rack until the
rack rail lock is engaged.
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Press the
server release latches, and then slide the
server out of the
rack.
- Place the server on a sturdy, level surface.