NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.29+)

Site Planning and Preparation
HP NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide—523303-021
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Selecting the Rooms and Assigning Floor Space
Selecting the Rooms and Assigning Floor
Space
By carefully selecting the one room or several rooms that will contain the system
equipment, you can making a lot of adjustments to make the rooms you select suitable
for the equipment, and you can avoid moving your equipment if you later decide to
expand the system.
Consider the following:
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The room or rooms must be large enough to accommodate both the system
equipment and any furniture or other related equipment.
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Ensure that any rooms you select have enough space for any needed office
furniture.
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Consider the lengths of the cables you will be using to connect enclosures to
each other, to power sources, and to peripheral equipment such as tape drives,
printers, and SWAN concentrators.
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Provide adequate walkways through the room and around the equipment and
furniture.
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The rooms must satisfy the placement requirements for system enclosures
described in Dimensions of Enclosures and Service Aisles on page B-8.
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The rooms must satisfy service requirements for peripheral devices or
subsystems that are installed only by service providers trained by HP. These
service requirements are included in the maintenance manuals for the specific
products.
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Consider the work flow. Especially in environments with large amounts of batch
jobs, the layout of the computers and peripherals can either ease or impede
the flow of work. For example, by placing tape drives and printers in different
areas, you can prevent operators who are loading tapes from getting in the
way of operators who are maintaining the printers.
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Reserve storage space for data processing supplies, manuals, equipment, and
archival material.
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Ensure that the AC power outlets and plugs are accessible to operators so
that, in an emergency, system equipment can be unplugged from the AC
power outlets.
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To protect other equipment from paper dust and static electricity, install printers in a
different room from the room where you install the system enclosures.
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Local regulations might require you to install emergency power-off (EPO) circuitry.
Refer to Emergency Power-Off (EPO) Equipment on page 12-11 for more
information about these requirements.
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Select a room that is big enough to allow for possible future expansion.