Bridge Technologies VB440 - Installation and Initial Setup; Prerequisite; Quick Installation Guide

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3 Installation and initial setup

3.1 Prerequisite

To connect the appliance you need the following:

• Two power cables for the redundant PSU

• 1 or 2 RJ45 1 Gbps Ethernet ports for management

• QSFP28 connectors for the data ports, or a QSFP cage + supported SFP module

Supported QSFP28 protocols:

• 100GBASE-CR4

• 100GBASE-KR4

• 100GBASE-SR4

• 56GBASE-R4

• 50G Ethernet Consortium

• 40GBASE-CR4

• 40GBASE-SR4

• 40GBASEL-R4

• 40GBASE-ER4

• 25GBASE-CR/CR-S

• 25GBASE-SR

• 25GBASE-LR

• 25G Ethernet Consortium

• 10GBASE-SR

• 10GBASE-LR

• 10GBASE-ER

• 10GBASE-CX4

• SGMII

• 1000BASE-X

3.2 Quick Installation Guide

Connect one or both of the management cables. Please note that with the default conﬁguration MGMT 1

(Orange) is conﬁgured with a static IP, and MGMT 2 (Green) is conﬁgured using DHCP. If you choose to

use the static port, the pre-conﬁgured address will be 10.0.20.101/16.

The server also has an IPMI port that can be connected if wanted. It is conﬁgured to use DHCP and the

username and password is ADMIN / ADMIN.