F5 VIPRION 4800 Series Assembly Instructions

Platform Guide: VIPRION®4800 Series
MAN-0423-05

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The VIPRION®4800 Series Platform..........................................................................................7
About the platform..............................................................................................................7
About the chassis...............................................................................................................7
About the blades..............................................................................................................11
LCD panel........................................................................................................................11
Using the LCD panel.............................................................................................12
About LCD menus.................................................................................................12
Indicator LEDs.................................................................................................................13
Indicator LED actions............................................................................................14
Chassis standard operating states........................................................................14
Bezel indicator LEDs.............................................................................................14
Fan tray indicator LEDs.........................................................................................14
Annunciator card indicator LEDs...........................................................................15
Power supply indicator LEDs.................................................................................15
Blade standard operating states............................................................................16
Blade indicator LEDs.............................................................................................16
Blade LED status conditions.................................................................................16
LED alert conditions..............................................................................................17
Defining custom alerts...........................................................................................17
Platform interfaces...........................................................................................................18
About blade interfaces...........................................................................................18
About 40GbE interfaces........................................................................................18
About 100GbE interfaces......................................................................................20
About managing interfaces....................................................................................21
Network interface LED behavior............................................................................25
Transceiver module specifications.........................................................................26
Cable pinout specifications....................................................................................26
Platform Installation.................................................................................................................27
About installing the platform.............................................................................................27
Hardware included with the VIPRION 4800 AC chassis..................................................27
Additional equipment for installing the VIPRION 4800 AC chassis..................................28
Hardware included with the VIPRION 4800 DC chassis..................................................28
Additional equipment for installing the VIPRION®4800 Series DC chassis.....................28
Hardware included with blades........................................................................................29
Peripheral hardware requirements...................................................................................29
About installing the chassis..............................................................................................30
Unpacking the chassis..........................................................................................30
About installing into a four-post rack.....................................................................34
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About installing into a two-post rack......................................................................37
Removing and storing the front lift handle.............................................................40
Attaching the bezel (with LCD component)...........................................................41
Installing the cable managers................................................................................42
Using the cable managers.....................................................................................42
Adjusting the cable managers...............................................................................43
About grounding the chassis............................................................................................43
Connecting the ground lug to the ground terminal................................................44
About installing blades.....................................................................................................44
Removing a blank..................................................................................................45
Removing a blade.................................................................................................47
Installing a blade...................................................................................................48
About powering the VIPRION 4800 Series AC platform..................................................50
Connecting AC power to the platform....................................................................50
About powering the VIPRION 4800 Series DC platform..................................................51
Connecting DC power to the platform...................................................................52
Connecting the cables and other hardware.....................................................................53
About cluster management..............................................................................................54
Configuring the cluster IP address from the LCD..................................................55
Configuring the cluster IP address using the config utility.....................................56
Configuring the cluster IP address using tmsh......................................................57
Licensing the platform......................................................................................................57
Verifying blade availability................................................................................................57
Platform Maintenance...............................................................................................................59
About maintaining the platform........................................................................................59
About AC power supplies.................................................................................................59
Installing an AC power supply...............................................................................60
About DC power supplies.................................................................................................62
Installing a DC power supply.................................................................................63
About the fan tray.............................................................................................................64
Replacing the fan tray............................................................................................64
About the storage drives..................................................................................................66
Replacing a storage drive assembly on a B4300 blade........................................66
About the bezel (with LCD component)...........................................................................67
Replacing the bezel (with LCD component)..........................................................67
About the chassis and power supply filters......................................................................68
Replacing the chassis filter....................................................................................68
Replacing the power supply filter..........................................................................69
About the annunciator cards............................................................................................69
Replacing the annunciator cards...........................................................................69
Environmental Guidelines........................................................................................................71
General environmental and installation guidelines...........................................................71
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Guidelines for the AC-powered platform..........................................................................72
Guidelines for the DC-powered platform..........................................................................73
NEBS platform guidelines................................................................................................73
Chassis rack mount spatial requirements........................................................................74
Platform power and airflow...............................................................................................75
Platform airflow diagram..................................................................................................75
Platform Specifications............................................................................................................77
General specifications for system features......................................................................77
VIPRION B4300/B4400 Series blade hardware specifications........................................77
Chassis hardware specifications......................................................................................78
Chassis environmental operating specifications..............................................................78
About AC power requirements.........................................................................................79
About AC power cables.........................................................................................79
AC power redundancy provisioning.......................................................................79
AC platform power consumption...........................................................................80
DC power requirements...................................................................................................80
DC power redundancy provisioning......................................................................81
DC platform power consumption...........................................................................81
NEBS-compliant VIPRION system configurations...........................................................82
Safety requirements.........................................................................................................83
EMC requirements...........................................................................................................83
Acoustic, airflow, and altitude specifications....................................................................84
China RoHS Requirements......................................................................................................87
Hazardous substance levels for China.............................................................................87
Repackaging Guidelines..........................................................................................................91
About repackaging the platform.......................................................................................91
Repackaging the chassis.................................................................................................91
Repackaging a blade.......................................................................................................95
Returned Material Data Security Statement...........................................................................99
About returned material data security..............................................................................99
About memory technologies used in F5 equipment.........................................................99
Volatile memory.....................................................................................................99
Battery-backed volatile memory............................................................................99
Non-volatile memory.............................................................................................99
About removing data from F5 components....................................................................100
Removing sensitive data from storage drives......................................................100
Removing IP address data from Always-On Management..................................101
Removing sensitive data from an internal hardware security module (HSM)......101
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Legal Notices..........................................................................................................................103
Legal Notices.................................................................................................................103
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The VIPRION®4800 Series Platform
About the platform
The VIPRION®4800 Series system provides you with the exibility and feature-rich capabilities of F5®
products on a powerful and highly-extensible hardware platform. With this platform, you install and congure
multiple F5 products using hot-swappable blades. This provides you with the ability to add, remove, or
change the platform's conguration to best t your network. Many components are available for you to add,
remove, or change including the blades, power supplies, fan tray, LCD panel, and more. This conguration
allows for an extremely robust and exible system that can manage large amounts of application trafc,
and remain operational even if one of its components goes ofine.
VIPRION platforms include two types of components: blades, which provide the hardware and software
needed to manage network trafc, and a chassis, which houses the blades.
Important: The chassis and blades are shipped in separate boxes. The blades are not designed to be shipped
inside a chassis.
Although the VIPRION 4800 Series platform is highly extensible and designed to be easy to implement,
familiarity with the platform components can help ensure that you install and integrate the platform
successfully and effectively.
About the chassis
The chassis is the housing unit that contains all of the components necessary for the VIPRION®4800 Series
platform to operate effectively.
The VIPRION C4800 chassis, B4300 Series, and B4400 Series blades are available in DC-powered Network
Equipment-Building System (NEBS) compliant versions. For a system to be completely NEBS-compliant,
you must use a NEBS-compliant chassis and blades.

1. Indicator LEDs (system and power status)
2. LCD display
3. LCD control buttons
4. Blanks for blades 1-8
Figure 1: Front view of a VIPRION C4800 chassis with bezel (with LCD panel) attached
The back of the AC-powered chassis includes four AC power receptacles.
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1. Removable lift handle
2. Front lift handle storage
3. Power supply receptacles (1-4)
4. Chassis grounds
Figure 2: Back view of the AC chassis
The back of the DC-powered chassis includes four DC power block terminals.
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1. Removable lift handle
2. Front lift handle storage
3. DC power block terminals (1-4)
4. Chassis grounds
Figure 3: Back view of the DC chassis
The DC-powered NEBS chassis includes a decal below the serial number label.
Figure 4: NEBS decal
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