Reference Guide

Deploying your appliance

Before you deploy your appliance, ensure that you read through this document and have yourself familiarized with the process and required

materials.

WARNING: Before you set up and operate your Dell appliance, review the safety instructions that shipped with your storage

enclosure.

WARNING: The weight of your appliance without the physical disk drives installed (empty weight) is 20.8 kg and 45.86 lb.

WARNING: Your appliance must be installed by Dell certied service technicians.

CAUTION: Before installing your appliance in the rack, make sure that the weight of the appliance does not exceed the weight

limit of the rack. For more information, see the Rack Installation instructions that shipped with your appliance.

NOTE: For weight stability, always load the rack by using bottom-up approach.

NOTE: This solution is deployed by Dell Services. The following deployment steps provide an outline of what Dell Services

accomplishes during the deployment process.

Topics:

• Important information about SATADOM

• Before you begin

• Setting up your Dell appliance for rst use

• Default cluster credentials

Important information about SATADOM

The SATA Disk‐On‐Motherboard (SATADOM) shipped with appliances is intended as an appliance boot device.

NOTE

: Write intensive activities and processes leveraged by appliances, are intended to take place on the SSDs and HDDs and

not the boot device.

The hypervisor boot device is not intended for application use.

WARNING

: Adding additional write intensive software to the SATADOM boot disk results in heavy wear on the device beyond

design specications resulting in premature hardware failure.

Examples of write intensive applications

Following are the examples of write intensive applications:

• – System Center Conguration Manager (CCMExec.exe)

– System Center Operations Manager (MonitoringHost.exe)

• Write‐intensive Agents

• Databases

• Disk management utilities (third-party disk defragmentation or partitioning tools)

• Additional roles outside of the appliance’s intended use (web server, domain controller, RDS, and so on)

• Client‐based Antivirus

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