You must complete several tasks to prepare your location
for the upgrade. Use this information to understand what you need
to do to ensure that your location is ready for the authorized service
provider and the upgrade.
To prepare your location, perform the following tasks:
- Validate that all of your existing cables are labeled appropriately
with the port and location they plug into the server and the destination
information on both ends.
- Assemble and lay out all of the new cables. The authorized service
provider connects the cables to your new server.
- Install any network or telephone connections such as twinaxial,
coaxial, telephone twisted pair, or Ethernet cables.
- Rearrange hardware, whenever possible, to ensure that it is located
in its final location. This might involve billable services, and you
might need to have a plan to determine when the hardware relocation
activity should occur.
- Prepare a work space that provides enough room for the authorized
service provider to lay out their ESD-protective mat and display their
input/output devices and other items.
- Ensure that, when the authorized service provider arrives,
the server is available to the authorized service provider with all
users off the system and no production jobs running. The authorized
service provider can then power the machine off and perform other
jobs.