Installing The Chassis; Prerequisites For Installing The Chassis - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Hardware Installation And Reference Manual

Installing a Cisco Nexus 7009 Chassis
Figure 20: Attaching a Center-Mount Bottom-Support Rail to a Rack
1 Left and right center-mount bottom-support rails
2 Two sets of 3 M6 x 19 mm Phillips screws ortwo sets of 3 12-24 x 3/4 in. Phillips
screws
Step 3 Align the crossbar to the lower back of the two bottom-support rails and use two M4 x 8 mm screws to attach it to each
rail (one screw for each rail).

Installing the Chassis

This section describes how to install the Cisco Nexus 7009 chassis in a rack or cabinet. Depending on your
data center requirements, you can choose to mount the front of the chassis to a rack or cabinet (standard
method of mounting the chassis), or you can choose to mount the center of the chassis to a rack or cabinet.
To mount the center of the chassis, you must order the center-mount brackets separately from the chassis.
This section includes the following topics:

Prerequisites for Installing the Chassis

Before you install the chassis, you must make sure that the following items are available for the installation:
• Data center ground that is accessible where you are installing the Cisco Nexus 7009 chassis.
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Installing the Chassis
3 Crossbar
4 M4 x 8 mm Phillips screws (2)
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