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.

Procedure
  1. Power down the server.
  2. Disconnect all peripheral devices from the chassis.
  3. Remove the power supplies (Removing and replacing a power supply).
  4. Remove the system fans (Removing and replacing the system fan).
  5. Remove the I/O module (Removing and replacing the I/O module).
  6. Remove all servers from the chassis (Remove the server from the chassis).
    IMPORTANT:

    Label the drives before removing them. The drives must be returned to their original locations.

  7. Remove all drives (Removing and replacing a drive).
  8. Remove the chassis from the rack.

    Removing the chassis from the rack
  9. Place the chassis on a flat, sturdy surface to support the chassis.