This guide provides site preparation information for the CHALLENGE™ and Onyx™ deskside and rackmount systems and the Vault system. This guide is intended for Silicon Graphics® system support engineers and other site personnel responsible for planning the installation of these systems.
The Challenge and Onyx deskside chassis have many physical similarities to the Single Tower and Crimson™ systems.
The Challenge and Onyx rackmount chassis are 19-inch rack systems with multiple cardcages and backplanes and up to 24 board slots, depending upon configuration. The Challenge and Onyx rackmount systems are replacements for the POWER Center™ (Predator) system.
The Vault chassis is a 19-inch rack system with multiple SCSI device racks for up to 56 3.5-inch devices, depending upon configuration. It is physically similar to the Challenge and Onyx rackmount chassis.
This guide contains these chapters:
Chapter 1, "Overview" defines the purpose of this guide and lists related product documents.
Chapter 2, "Site Preparation" lists the general activities required to prepare a site for a system.
Chapter 3, "Preparing the Physical Location" describes how to prepare your physical location, such as providing space and air conditioning.
Chapter 4, "Preparing Site Power" describes how to prepare your power requirements, such as installing power circuits and cables.
Chapter 5, "Cabling Local and Peripheral Devices" describes the cables and connectors for local and peripheral devices.
This section lists and briefly describes documents for the Challenge, Onyx, and Vault products.
The following is a list of deskside system documents:
CHALLENGE/Onyx Deskside Installation Instructions (P/N 108-7039-xxx) provides the information to install and test a deskside system. This document also contains removal and replacement procedures for field replaceable units (FRUs).
CHALLENGE Deskside Owner's Guide (P/N 007-1732-xxx) provides information for an enduser to operate the deskside server system and to install system peripherals.
Onyx Deskside Owner's Guide (P/N 007-1733-xxx) provides information for an enduser to operate the deskside graphics workstation system and to install system peripherals.
The following is a list of rackmount system documents:
CHALLENGE/Onyx Rackmount Installation Instructions (P/N 108-7042-xxx) provides the information to install and test a rackmount system. This document also contains removal and replacement procedures for field replaceable units (FRUs).
CHALLENGE Rackmount Owner's Guide (P/N 007-1735-xxx) provides information for an enduser to operate the rackmount server system and to install system peripherals.
Onyx Rackmount Owner's Guide (P/N 007-1736-xxx) provides information for an enduser to operate the rackmount graphics workstation system and to install system peripherals.
CHALLENGE Vault Rack and SCSIBox 2 InstallationInstructions (P/N 108-7044-xxx) provides the information to install, configure, and test a Vault storage rack and the SCSIBox 2. This guide also provides software information to reconfigure IRIX™ to recognize the additional devices.
CHALLENGE Vault Rack and SCSIBox 2 Owner's Guide (P/N 007-1762-xxx) describes how to operate the Vault and SCSIBox 2 and also how to install drives into the Vault storage rack.
This section lists manuals that relate to both the deskside and rackmount systems:
CHALLENGE/Onyx Diagnostics Roadmap (P/N 108-7045-xxx) describes procedures to operate the four classes of diagnostic tests for the deskside and rackmount systems.
CHALLENGE/Onyx Peripherals Guide (P/N 007-1781-xxx) describes peripheral hardware and software setup and storage device jumpering information for deskside and rackmount chassis.
IRIX Advanced Site and Server Administration Guide (3 volumes: P/N 007-0603-xxx, 007-1446-020, 007-1654-xxx) explains how to use advanced IRIX™ operating system utilities and how to perform standard system administration.