Electronic equipment chassis having storage devices and other modules configured for front-access removability
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1. An electronic equipment chassis comprising:
- a housing having a front portion and a rear portion;
first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion; and
a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules;
wherein the electronic equipment chassis has a rack mount configuration for mounting of the electronic equipment chassis in an electronic equipment rack;
wherein at least a subset of the cooling modules and at least a subset of the storage devices are configured for each such cooling module and storage device to be individually removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing;
a given one of the cooling modules of the subset of cooling modules thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the cooling modules in a same one of the first and second rows as the given one of the cooling modules; and
a given one of the storage devices of the subset of storage devices thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the storage devices.
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Abstract
An electronic equipment chassis in one embodiment comprises a housing having a front portion and a rear portion, first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion, and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules. At least a subset of the cooling modules and the storage devices are configured so as to be removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing.
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20 Claims
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1. An electronic equipment chassis comprising:
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a housing having a front portion and a rear portion; first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion; and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules; wherein the electronic equipment chassis has a rack mount configuration for mounting of the electronic equipment chassis in an electronic equipment rack; wherein at least a subset of the cooling modules and at least a subset of the storage devices are configured for each such cooling module and storage device to be individually removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing; a given one of the cooling modules of the subset of cooling modules thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the cooling modules in a same one of the first and second rows as the given one of the cooling modules; and a given one of the storage devices of the subset of storage devices thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the storage devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An electronic equipment rack comprising:
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a first electronic equipment chassis mounted in the electronic equipment rack; and at least one additional electronic equipment chassis mounted in the electronic equipment rack; wherein at least one of the first electronic equipment chassis and the additional electronic equipment chassis each comprises; a housing having a front portion and a rear portion; first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of the front portion; and a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion between the first and second rows of cooling modules; wherein at least a subset of the cooling modules and at least a subset of the storage devices are configured for each such cooling module and storage device to be individually removable from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing; a given one of the cooling modules of the subset of cooling modules thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the cooling modules in a same one of the first and second rows as the given one of the cooling modules; and a given one of the storage devices of the subset of storage devices thereby being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the storage devices. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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13. A method comprising:
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configuring an electronic equipment chassis to include first and second rows of cooling modules disposed at respective upper and lower levels of a front portion of a housing of the chassis; configuring the electronic equipment chassis to further include a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front portion of the housing between the first and second rows of cooling modules; and removing at least a subset of the cooling modules and at least a subset of the storage devices individually from the chassis through a vertical plane of the front portion of the housing; wherein the electronic equipment chassis has a rack mount configuration for mounting of the electronic equipment chassis in an electronic equipment rack; a given one of the cooling modules of the subset of cooling modules being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the cooling modules in a same one of the first and second rows as the given one of the cooling modules; and a given one of the storage devices of the subset of storage devices being removable from the chassis through the vertical plane of the front portion of the housing separately from one or more other ones of the storage devices. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 19, 20)
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