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.................................................................... 7
Fibre Channel SAN Fabric................................................................................................................7
Internal Network for Multi-Appliance Clusters...............................................................................7
SAN and Internal Networks for iSCSI Appliances.................................................................................8
Client Network...................................................................................................................................... 9
IP Addresses and Network Infrastructure.............................................................................................9
Network Ports......................................................................................................................................10
SAN Configuration...............................................................................................................................10
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