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VNXe3100 Installation Guide
Connect
After you finish installing, cabling, and powering up the system, the system must acquire an IP
address for its management interface before you can register, license, or configure it. You can
assign an IP address to a VNXe system in the following ways:
◆ If you are running VNXe on a dynamic network that includes DHCP servers, DNS servers, and
Dynamic DNS services, the management IP address can be assigned automatically as
explained in
“Automatically Assigning a Dynamic VNXe Management Port IP Address”.
◆ If you are not running the VNXe in a network that supports DHCP or you would rather manually
assign a static IP address, you must install and run the VNXe Connection Utility as explained
in
“Manually Assigning a Static VNXe Management Port IP Address”.
Use the content from the VNXe Series Configuration Worksheet in this procedure.
Automatically Assigning a Dynamic VNXe Management Port IP
Address
Assigning an IP address to a VNXe system management port dynamically requires the following:
◆ Network DNS server (with dynamic DNS services enabled)
◆ Network DHCP server
◆ Connectivity between the VNXe system, the DHCP server, and the DNS server
The DHCP server must be configured to automatically register DHCP clients with Dynamic DNS
services. By default, VNXe systems are configured to use DHCP for IP assignment and will accept
an IP address offered by a network DHCP server.
Perform the following steps to automatically assign an IP address to your VNXe system
management port:
1. After you power up the VNXe system check the status of the SP fault/status LEDs. If the SP
fault/status LEDs are solid blue, a management IP address has been assigned. If the
fault/status LEDs are blue and flash amber every three seconds, no management IP address
has been assigned. Check the connectivity between the system, the DNS server, and the DHCP
server. You can also manually assign an IP address to the management port as described in
“Manually Assigning a Static VNXe Management Port IP Address” on page 21.
2. Open a web browser and access the VNXe management interface specifying the following as a
URL in the browser's address bar:
serial_number
.domain
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