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EMC VNX5500 File Installation Guide
Site requirements
Table 2 Resource requirements
Resource Requirement
Power AC: For high availability, at least two 110 or 240 V AC circuits are required.
or
DC: See the requirements in
DC-Powered VNX Series Enclosures Installation and Operation
Guide.
Network One or two 1-Gigabit Ethernet management connections (depending on 1 or 2 Control
Stations) and two customer-supplied CAT5e or better cables.
Space Cabinet vertical space:
• 3U for disk processor enclosure (DPE)
• 1U for the standby power supply (SPS)
• 1U for each Control Station (CS)
• 2U for each blade enclosure (BE)
• For each optional DAE, either 2U or 3U
Tools Slotted- or Phillips-head screwdriver
Management Station A Windows-based computer to run the initialization, maintenance, and management tools
with:
• Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 800
• At least 500 MB of free space
• Connection on same LAN subnet as your VNX5500 system
• DNS/NTP server network connection to the VNX5500 and the management host
• Windows Domain Controller recommended
• SMTP server network connection to the VNX5500 and the management host
•JRE*
• Browser * (Internet Explorer or 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,
http://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