Cisco Catalyst Center Third-Generation Appliance Installation Guide, Release 3.1.x

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Review the rack requirements

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Overview

Provides rack requirement information.

Ensure your rack meets these requirements:

  • Use a standard 19 in. (48.3 cm) wide, four-post EIA rack with mounting posts that conform to English universal hole spacing, as specified in Section 1 of ANSI/EIA-310-D-1992.

  • Use the Cisco-supplied slide rails. The rack-post holes can be one of these types: square 0.38 in. (9.6 mm), round 0.28 in. (7.1 mm), size 12-24 UNC, or size 10-32 UNC.

  • Provide at least one rack unit (RU), or 1.75 in. (44.45 mm), of vertical rack space for every 32-core or 56-core appliance server.

    Provide at least two rack units (RUs), or 3.5 in. (88.9 mm), of vertical rack space for every 80-core appliance server.

Supported Cisco slide rail kits

The server supports these rail kit options:

  • Part UCSC-RAIL-M6 is a ball bearing slide rail kit.

  • Part UCSC-CMA-C220M6 is a reversible cable management arm for the ball bearing slide rail kit used with 32-core and 56-core appliances.

  • Part UCSC-CMA-C240M6 is a reversible cable management arm for the 80-core appliance's ball bearing slide rail kit.

Rack installation tools required

You do not need tools to install the slide rails sold by Cisco Systems for this server.

Slide rail and cable management arm dimensions

The slide rails for this server have an adjustment range of 24 in. (610 mm) to 36 in. (914 mm).

The optional cable management arm adds additional length requirements:

  • For the 32-core and 56-core appliances, the distance from the rear of the server to the rear of the cable management arm is 5.4 in. (137.4 mm). For the 80-core appliance, the distance is 7.6 in. (193 mm).

  • For the 32-core and 56-core appliances, the total length of the server including the cable management arm is 35.2 in. (894 mm). For the 80-core appliance, the length is 37.6 in. (955 mm).