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A.3.8. Checklist

Before moving to the next section, please make sure all following tasks are completed.

Tasks

Notes

 Install OS, configure swap

disks, and install XFS

packages

Section A.3.1

 Configure multipath

Section A.3.2. Please make sure root device

is not in the control of multipath, it is very

important for the future HA cluster

configuration.

 Install Mellanox package and

set network IPs.

Section A.3.3. If 10gbE is deployed, please

skip the part of installing Mellanox

package.

 Install OSMA and storage

management tool

Section A.3.4. Please make sure that the

storage management tool is installed after

the configuration of multipath, it is very

important.

 Network security setting

Section A.3.5.

 Configure startup service

Section A.3.6.

 Configure and test the

configuration of PDUs and

iDRAC.

Section A.3.7. Please make sure there is no

problem to remote login PDUs via Telnet,

and no problem to remote login iDRAC via

ssh.

 Check the software versions,

firmware versions, and driver

versions.

Refer to section 5.2, Table 6 and 7