EMC VNX5300 Block

8 EMC VNX5300 Block Installation Guide
Site requirements
Table 2 Site Requirements
Area Requirement
Power AC Power: For high availability, at least two 110 or 240 V AC circuits are required.
or
DC Power: See the requirements in
DC-Powered VNX Series Enclosures Installation
and Operation Guide.
Network Two 1-Gigabit Ethernet management connections and two customer-supplied CAT5e
or better cables.
Space Cabinet vertical space:
• 3U (unit) (5.25 inches, 13.3 cm) for disk processor enclosure (DPE)
• 1U for the standby power supply (SPS)
• For each optional DAE, either 2U or 3U
Tools Slotted or Phillips screwdriver
Management Station A Windows-based computer to run the initialization, maintenance, and management
tools with:
• Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 800 and 256 colors
• At least 500 MB of free space
• Connection on same LAN subnet as your system if you will use it to initialize the
system
• Windows Domain Controller recommended
• SMTP server network connection to the VNX5300 and the management host
•JRE*
• Browser* (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox)
*Supported versions are listed in the release notes.
Network information The management port and login information in the Planning Worksheets of this install
guide. This information includes:
• A static IP address for each storage processor in the system (for example,
123.45.6.7)
• The IPv6 global prefix and gateway for each SP if your network supports the IPv6
Internet Protocol and you want to manually configure IPv6 for the management
ports
• The subnet mask of the LAN to which the system is connected
• The default gateway address of the LAN to which the system is connected