Installation guide

Preface

Intended Audience

This manual is written for Digital customer service engineers and self-

maintenance customers who require information on installing a DEC

10000 AXP system or a VAX 10000 system.

Document Structure

This manual uses a structured documentation design. Topics are organ-

ized into small sections for efficient on-line and printed reference. Each

topic begins with an abstract. You can quickly gain a comprehensive over-

view by reading only the abstracts. Next is an illustration or example,

which also provides quick reference. Last in the structure are descriptive

text and syntax definitions.

This manual has eight chapters and three appendixes, as follows:

• Chapter 1, Installation Overview, provides a flowchart which sum-

marizes the installation process.

• Chapter 2, Unpacking and Assembling Cabinets, shows how to

unpack and assemble all cabinets and related cabling for the system.

• Chapter 3, Making Console, Ethernet, and FDDI Connections,

shows how to connect the console and Ethernet and FDDI devices if

present to the system.

• Chapter 4, Connecting to a DSSI Subsystem, shows how to con-

nect to a DSSI subsystem, if present.

• Chapter 5, Connecting to a CI VMScluster, shows how to connect

to a CI VMScluster, if present.

• Chapter 6, Powering Up the System, explains how to start the sys-

tem by applying main power.

• Chapter 7, System Self-Test, describes the system self-test and its

results.

• Chapter 8, Diagnostics and Utilities, describes how to verify sys-

tem operation using diagnostics and utilities.

• Appendix A contains an overview of storage architectures for the VAX

10000 system.