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This Quick Start Guide provides an introduction to the hardware components of the
Vess A3120 Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance, as well as instructions for how
to install the device in an equipment rack, and how to connect the power, a keyboard
and monitor used for the initial configuration setup. Then power on the system, login
as administrator and create a RAID drive for storage video data. When you have com
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pleted the instruction in this guide, you need to read the Product Manual, and other
user documentation available from Promise, for additional instructions on how to con-
nect the system to the surveillance network, connect to additional network storage if
needed, how to install video management software, how to administer, manage and
maintain the system, as well as how best to scale the system to suit the requirements
of your surveillance and data storage network.
This guide also includes information about:
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The Vess A3120 Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance, as the name implies, com-
bines an NVR server for video data compression, recording and playback, with built-in
RAID storage for saving the video data. All Vess A Series Storage Appliance for Video
Surveillance systems are scalable with additional Vess A Series systems for video data
and Vess R2000 Series storage subsystem and Vess J2000 JBOD storage.
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Vess A3120
Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance