Deployment Guide

Set Administrator Information

The Set Administrator Information page allows you to set a new password and an email address for the Admin user.

Steps

1. Enter a new password for the default Storage Center administrator user in the New Admin Password and Confirm Password

fields.

2. Enter the email address of the default Storage Center administrator user in the Admin Email Address field.

3. Click Next.

• For a Fibre Channel or SAS storage system, the Confirm Configuration page appears.

• For an iSCSI storage system, the Configure iSCSI Fault Domains page appears.

Confirm the Storage Center Configuration

Make sure that the configuration information shown on the Confirm Configuration page is correct before continuing. If you selected DHCP

IPv4 as the network configuration source, the dynamically assigned IP addresses are displayed on this page.

Steps

1. Verify that the Storage Center settings are correct.

2. If the configuration information is correct, click Apply Configuration.

If the configuration information is incorrect, click Back and provide the correct information.

NOTE:

After you click the Apply Configuration button, the configuration cannot be changed until after the Storage

Center is fully deployed.

Deploy the Storage Center

The Storage Center sets up the storage system using the information provided on the previous pages.

Steps

1. The Storage Center performs system setup tasks. The Deploy Storage Center page displays the status of these tasks.

To learn more about the initialization process, click More information about Initialization.

• If one or more of the system setup tasks fails, click Troubleshoot Initialization Error to learn how to resolve the issue.

• If the Configuring Disks task fails, click View Disks to see the status of the drives detected by the Storage Center.

• If any of the Storage Center front-end ports are down, the Storage Center Front-End Ports Down dialog box opens. Select the

ports that are not connected to the storage network, then click OK.

2. When all of the Storage Center setup tasks are complete, click Next.

Configure Key Management Server Settings

The Key Management Server Settings page opens if the Storage Center is licensed for SEDs. Use this page to specify the key

management server network settings and select the SSL certificate files.

Steps

1. Specify the network settings for the key management server.

2. If the key management server is configured to verify client certificates against credentials, type the user name and password of the

certificates.

3. Select the key manager server certificate files.

4. Click Next.

Deploy the Storage Center