Planning your deployment
Planning your deployment involves checking the contents of the boxes, preparing the site, and
ensuring that your systems meet the minimum resource requirements. Using a Deployment Data
worksheet, you should also gather your site-specific deployment data.
Steps
1. Review the content of the boxes and ensure that you identify all components.
2. Verify that you have access to a service laptop with the installation requirements.
3. Prepare the site for the hardware installation.
4. Gather data for deploying the StorageGRID Webscale appliance.
Related tasks
on page 15
Gathering data for deploying StorageGRID Webscale appliance
on page 17
Related references
StorageGRID Webscale appliance components
on page 10
StorageGRID Webscale appliance connections
on page 15
StorageGRID Webscale appliance components
Before installing the StorageGRID Webscale appliance, you should verify that the appliance boxes
contain all required components and that you have additional tools required to install and manage
them.
Hardware
The StorageGRID Webscale appliance includes the following hardware components:
SG5660 enclosure, a 4U chassis with 60 drives
SG5612 enclosure, a 2U chassis with 12 drives
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