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Preinstall - Step 1 continued
Prepare the site
2. Confirm that your facility has appropriate electrical wiring in place to
accommodate your installation’s power cables. To support all of the storage
system’s high-availability features, you must receive power from at least two
discrete circuits.
Detailed technical specifications for CX3-series systems, including AC power requirements, are
available on the Powerlink website.
3. Have a Windows host available that you can connect to the same subnet as the
storage system’s management ports. You can use this host:
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To initialize the storage system
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To run the Navisphere®
Service Taskbar
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As a Navisphere management station
The management station can be any Windows host with the required Java runtime environment
(JRE), or a Windows host set up as an off-array station (manager) as described in the Navisphere
Manager help available in the Documentation/White Paper Library section of the Powerlink site.
4. You must provide the following:
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CAT 5 or better Ethernet LAN RJ45 cables (one per SP) for storage-system
management connections
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Fibre Channel optical cables (two maximum per SP) for server Fibre Channel
HBA or Fibre Channel switch connections
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A CAT 5 or better Ethernet LAN RJ45 cable for each iSCSI data port that will be
used (four are available per SP)
