Hi John,
Can you drop me a LinkedIn message or a private message with your email here?
If the equipment is in Lambeth (As your website suggest the address is) and you reckon you got all the cabling (to connect the shelves ideally you need 4 cables +2 for each shelf, and enough power cords for all the sockets) i can drop in for a few hours in an afternoon or a weekend and help with the initial configuration.
i will highly suggest to leave at least one shelf as spare - as this hardware i over 10 years old and likely to fail frequently. if the data is critical to the project - it's worth considering a good backup plan before putting any data on it (and we can perhaps use the existing hardware as both primary storage and backup, so worth thinking of - before deploying, as you might want to split the hardware to two sites/rooms).
i can also speak with some of my contacts and try to get some more up-to-date equipment (not sure they will be up for it due to data protection, but can try). i think more up to date equipment will also be more power efficient.
Gidi