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This Quick Start Guide provides an introduction to the hardware components of the
Vess A3340s and Vess A3340d 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 completed the instruction in this guide, you need to read the Product
Manual, and other user documentation available from Promise, for additional instruc-
tions on how to connect the system to the surveillance network, connect to additional
network storage if needed, how to install video management software, how to admin-
ister, 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 A3340s and Vess A3340d Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance, as the
name implies, combines an NVR server for video data compression, recording and
playback, with built-in RAID storage for saving the video data. All Vess A Series Stor
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age 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.
The Vess A3340d features swappable redundant power supplies. The Vess A3340s
uses a single power supply, but is otherwise identical to the Vess A3340d.
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Vess A3340s / Vess A3340d
Storage Appliance for Video Surveillance
