Deployment Guide

Contents
About This Guide................................................................................................................4
Revision History..................................................................................................................................................................4
1 Deployment Prerequisites................................................................................................ 5
Rack and Infrastructure...................................................................................................................................................... 5
Materials.............................................................................................................................................................................5
Network Credentials...........................................................................................................................................................6
SAN and Internal Network for Fibre Channel Appliances.................................................................................................... 6
Fibre Channel SAN Fabric.............................................................................................................................................6
Internal Network for Multi-Appliance Clusters.............................................................................................................. 7
SAN and Internal Networks for iSCSI Appliances................................................................................................................7
Client Network................................................................................................................................................................... 8
IP Addresses and Network Infrastructure........................................................................................................................... 8
Network Ports....................................................................................................................................................................9
SAN Conguration..............................................................................................................................................................9
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