EMC VNXe3200 - Connect Management Station; Assign Dynamic VNXe Management IP

Connect a management station
Note
At the end of the power-up process, the SP Status/Fault LEDs blink blue/amber,
indicating that the system is ready to run the Connection Utility.
You must connect a management station to your system directly or remotely over a
subnetwork. This computer will be used to continue setting up your system and must be
on the same subnet as the storage system to complete the initialization.
NOTICE
Check to see if there is security software running on your workstation/laptop such as
Cisco Security Agent or McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention Service that may prevent the
initialized system from being detected. If there is, disable it (Windows Services) before
running the initialization.
The system management ports support both IPv4 and IPv6. You can assign an IP address
to a system in the following ways:
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If you are running system on a dynamic network that includes a DHCP server and a
DNS server, the management IP address can be assigned automatically as explained
in Automatically Assigning a Dynamic VNXe Management Port IP Address on page
42.
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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 Connection Utility as
explained in Manually Assigning a Static VNXe Management Port IP Address on page
43.
Automatically Assigning a Dynamic VNXe Management Port IP
Address
Assigning an IP address to a VNXe system management port dynamically requires the
following:
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Network DNS server (with dynamic DNS services enabled)
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Network DHCPv4 server and/or a DHCPv6 server and/or a router advertising DNS
servers
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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:
Procedure
1. After you power up the VNXe system, check the SP Fault/Status LEDs
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If the SP Fault/Status LEDs are solid blue, a management IP address has been
assigned
Connect
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