Deploying an appliance
Before you begin
Before you deploy an appliance, ensure that you read through this document and familiarize yourself with the process and required
materials.
WARNING:
Before you set up and operate your appliance, review the safety instructions that shipped with your storage
enclosure.
WARNING:
The weight of your appliance with all the physical disk drives installed (full weight) is 41.46 Kg (91.40 lb).
WARNING:
Your appliance must be installed by Dell EMC certified service technicians.
CAUTION:
Before installing your appliance in the rack, ensure that the weight of the appliance does not exceed the weight limit
of the rack. For more information, see the Rack Installation instructions that is shipped with your appliance.
CAUTION:
It is important that you complete all the tasks in this guide before doing other configurations.
NOTE:
For weight stability, always load the rack by using bottom-up approach.
NOTE:
This solution is deployed by Dell EMC Services.
Ensure that the following items are available:
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Power cables
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Network cables—optical and/or copper (Intel SFP+ or Category 6 Ethernet)
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Rail kit
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Nutanix documentation
•
Dell EMC Documentation
NOTE:
For more information about the Dell EMC documentation and Nutanix documentation, see the Documentation matrix
section in
Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Support Matrix
available at
Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals
.
NOTE:
The Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS) card shipped with XC Series appliances is the appliance boot device. This
PCIe card supports up to two M.2 SATA SSDs configured in RAID1 for high availability. Write intensive activities and processes
leveraged by XC Series appliances, are intended to take place on the SSDs and HDDs and not the BOSS boot device. Any
applications defaulting write activity to the BOSS boot drive should be redirected accordingly.
The following are some of the examples of write intensive applications not to be run on the boot device:
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Appliance Center Agents
– System Center Configuration Manager (CCMExec.exe)
– System Center Operations Manager (MonitoringHost.exe)
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Write
‐
intensive Agents
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Databases
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Disk management utilities (third-party disk defragmentation or partitioning tools)
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More roles outside of the appliance’s intended use (web server, domain controller, RDS, and so on.).
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Client
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based Antivirus (Hyper-V only)
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Virtual machines: Ensure that the virtual machines run only on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).
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