Setup guide

Safety and Work
Environment Guidelines
Topics in this chapter:
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About These Guidelines on page 11
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Setting Up Your Work Site and Handling Storage Hardware on page 11
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Establishing Ideal Environmental Conditions on page 12
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Avoiding Electrostatic Discharge on page 12
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Powering Up and Down on page 12
About These Guidelines
This chapter presents essential precautions you should review prior to installing and configuring your Stone
Direct storage. These considerations and site preparations will help ensure a safe installation.
WARNING All safety and work environment guidelines presented in this chapter relate to Stone Direct disk arrays
only and do not replace or modify guidelines or requirements set by the manufacturers of the workstation or of
the peripheral devices attached to your system.
Setting Up Your Work Site and Handling Storage Hardware
Guidelines for setting up your workspace and handling your storage hardware are included in the
documentation for your disk array.
For XR-series disk arrays, refer to Chapter 2, “Getting Started” in the XR/XE RAID Solution Maintenance Guide.
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