Planning for installation

Before you can start to set up your DS6000™ series, you must verify that the prerequisite conditions for the DS6000 series are met.

1. Prepare your physical site to meet all area, environment, and power requirements.
2. Move the DS6000 series to your site. Ensure that you use safe practices when lifting.
3. Ensure that the floor area provides enough stability to support the weight of the fully configured DS6000 series and associated components.
4. Ensure that you have adequate rack space for your hardware.
5. Assemble the tools and equipment that you will need for installation. This includes the following items:
   1. Power cords
   2. Host fibre-channel and Ethernet interface cables
   3. Host SFPs
   4. Fibre-channel disk drives
   5. Antistatic protection
   6. The rack-mounting hardware that ships with the DS6000 series
   7. The IBM System Storage™ DS Storage Manager CD, which includes the DS Storage Manager software and firmware
   8. Flathead screwdriver
6. Identify a management client server and ensure that it meets the hardware and operating system compatibility requirements.
7. Gather the World Wide Port Names (WWPNs) of your open systems hosts that you want to attach to the DS6000 series.
8. Determine your storage configuration information, such as:
   1. RAID levels
   2. Arrays
   3. LUN sizes

• Preparing the physical environment for your DS6000 series
  This section provides information you need to ensure that your physical site meets the installation requirements for the DS6000 series.
• Planning for environment requirements
  Plan to locate your DS6000 series in a site that has the same environment for the base unit and any expansion units.
• Preparing the rack
  Before you install the DS6000 series in a rack, you must prepare the rack.
• Considering safety issues
  You must consider various safety issues when you plan your DS6000 series location.