Dell PowerEdge 2800 Hardware Installation Manual

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Rack Installation Guide 1-5CAUTION: Safety InstructionsUse the following safety guidelines to help ensure your own personal safety and to helpprotect your system and working environment from potential damage. For complete safetyinformation, see the Product Information Guide.SAFETY: Rack Mounting of SystemsObserve the following precautions for rack stability and safety.Systems are considered to be components in a rack. Thus, "component" refers to any systemas well as to various peripherals or supporting hardware.CAUTION: Installing systems in a rack without the front and side stabilizers installed couldcause the rack to tip over, potentially resulting in bodily injury under certain circumstances.Therefore, always install the stabilizers before installing components in the rack.After installing system/components in a rack, never pull more than one component out of the rackon its slide assemblies at one time. The weight of more than one extended component couldcause the rack to tip over and injure someone.NOTE: Your system is safety-certified as a free-standing unit and as a component for use in a rackcabinet using the customer rack kit. The installation of your system and rack kit in any other rackcabinet has not been approved by any safety agencies. It is your responsibility to ensure that thefinal combination of system and rack complies with all applicable safety standards and localelectric code requirements. The manufacturer disclaims all liability and warranties in connectionwith such combinations.• System rack kits are intended to be installed in a rack by trained service technicians.If you install the kit in any other rack, be sure that the rack meets the specifications.CAUTION: Do not move racks by yourself. Due to the height and weight of the rack, a minimumof two people should accomplish this task.• Before working on the rack, make sure that the stabilizers are secured to the rack,extended to the floor, and that the full weight of the rack rests on the floor. Install frontand side stabilizers on a single rack or front stabilizers for joined multiple racks beforeworking on the rack.• Always load the rack from the bottom up, and load the heaviest item in the rack first.• Make sure that the rack is level and stable before extending a component from the rack.• Use caution when pressing the component rail release latches and sliding a componentinto or out of a rack; the slide rails can pinch your fingers.• After a component is inserted into the rack, carefully extend the rail into a lockingposition, and then slide the component into the rack.