Vanguard 6500 PLUS Installation Manual

2-38 Installation
Installing Nodes in Modulus Enclosures
Guidelines for
Installing a TRIM
Card in a Modulus
8/18
Consider the following if you install a TRIM card in a Modulus 8/18 enclosure:
Note
Before you add a TRIM card to an existing node, be sure the enclosure has room
for it as described above. To make space, you may need to rearrange cards and
backplanes, which requires a node shutdown first.
• A processor card with attached TRIM card requires four slots — two slots for
the TRIM card and two for the processor card.
• You can attach a TRIM card only to the processor card in the
lowest-numbered slot of a backplane (this is the master processor
in a multi-processor node).
• There must be two empty slots beside the backplane next to the
lowest-numbered processor card.
• The TRIM card rear filler panel covers the back of the two slots taken by the
TRIM card. This rear panel, which has a cutout for the LAN port connectors,
covers the TRIM card backplane (Figure 2-8). Two standard Modulus 8/18
front filler panels cover the front of the TRIM card’s slots (Figure 2-9).
• When installing in a Modulus 18 enclosure, a metal screen must be installed
onto the Modulus 18 door to meet FCC requirements. See the “Preparing
Modulus Enclosures for RFI Suppression” section on page 2-49.