Reference Guide
Setting up your appliance for rst use
Prerequisite
Make sure that your appliance components are properly installed. Your appliance is shipped with physical disk drives, power supply units
(PSUs), and fan components. Ensure that all components are properly seated and are not dislodged or damaged during shipping.
Steps
1 Install the appliance in a rail.
The appliance requires a compatible rack and a rack installation kit. For more information about rail installation for the appliance, see
the Rack Installation instructions that shipped with your appliance.
2 Cable your solution based on the best practices cabling diagram shown in the following image:
NOTE: At a minimum, there are three appliances in a cluster.
Figure 2. Cabling an appliance
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Management Network 2 Host Network
NOTE: The preferred setup is to connect the management port across all three appliances to the same switch (management
network).
Deploying XC Series Appliance and XC Core System
The ow of tasks in deploying the XC Series Appliance and XC Core System is shown in the following image:
Figure 3. Deployment workow process
The deployment of XC Series Appliance and XC Core System involves running the rst time boot scripts, creating an XC cluster, and
conguring the storage cluster with Hypervisor Management Interface.
Deploying an appliance
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