Before system installation, complete the tasks outlined in the pre-installation checklist as part of the site preparation and installation planning. Your Oracle Sales team can arrange for site audit and installation services.
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Site preparation or pre-installation planning items |
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| Pre-installation site preparation: Prior to system delivery, a site audit must be conducted. | |
| ❑ | Determine the suitability of access routes to the installation location, such as carpet, doors, elevators, floor strengths, and ramps. |
| ❑ | Determine the load capacity of the floor where the system is to be installed. |
| ❑ | Verify the cleanliness of the site and inform the customer to perform any required cleaning. |
| ❑ | Note any problems or peculiarities at the site that require special equipment. |
| ❑ | Determine if there will be raised floors, where the cabling will be under the floor. For raised floors, cutout tiles with protected edges will be needed prior to installation. |
| ❑ | Determine the environmental conditions at the installation site, including temperature and humidity. The operating environment must remain between the operating temperatures of 41ºF —95ºF (5º— 35º Celsius) and the relative humidity must remain between 10% and 90% non-condensing. Operational altitude is from -200 to 10,000 feet. |
| ❑ | Ensure that the installation site provides adequate air conditioning. To bring the room to the appropriate temperature, operate the air conditioning system for 48 hours prior to the scheduled installation. |
| Unpacking logistics | |
| ❑ | Do not unpack components from their original packaging until you are ready to perform the Oracle FS System installation.
Note: Stack the boxes containing the Drive Enclosures in inverse order with DE #1 on the top of the pile and DE #30 at the bottom.
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| Grounding requirements | |
| ❑ | Determine if all powered equipment are properly grounded for proper operation and safety. All power distribution units, branch wiring, and receptacles must be listed as grounding-type devices. Connect each component and power distribution unit into reliably grounded outlets. Caution To reduce the risk of electric shock or damage to installed equipment, never disable the grounding plug on any power cord. |
| Rack requirements | |
| ❑ | Determine if the rack can support the weight load of an Oracle FS System. |
| ❑ | Determine if adequate space is available for the new racks or within existing racks. |
| ❑ | Determine if there is adequate room in the customer provided rack for all the Oracle FS System components. |
| Documentation requirements | |
| ❑ | Check the Oracle FS1-2 Flash Storage System Release Notes and MyOracle Support (MOS) (https://support.oracle.com/) portal to see if any software updates are available. |
| ❑ | Check the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-unified-ss-193371.html) for all relevant documentation:
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| Data path interface requirements | |
| ❑ | Ensure that data path interfaces or connectors meet Oracle specifications and speed requirements. |
| Network connectivity requirements | |
| ❑ | Two 1 Gb/10 Gb Ethernet network cables, one for each Pilot to enable Pilot connectivity to the management network. |
| ❑ | Obtain three IP addresses for the Pilot management interfaces. The shared IP address may be assigned using DHCP. The address for each Pilot may not be assigned using DHCP. DNS hostnames for the Pilot management interfaces are optional, but recommended. The standard Pilot configuration or the Oracle FS System factory default IP addresses are as follows:
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| Global system parameters | |
| ❑ | The Oracle FS System defaults to the correct Call‑Home connection parameters and IP addresses, if it uses a direct connection to the Oracle servers. If you are using a Proxy server, the information on the Call‑Home connection parameters and IP addresses comes from the local network and firewall administrators. Get the Call‑Home configuration modes from the site network and/or firewall administrators. |
| ❑ | Set the operating mode of the management Ethernet: auto-negotiation, or manual speed and duplex. |
| ❑ | Configure the DNS server and backup DNS server for Call-Home. |
| ❑ | Get the IP address of your primary NTP server for synchronizing system time. This is recommended for SAN and required for NAS. |
| ❑ | Configure an email server for password recovery and optionally for sending e-mail notifications. |
| ❑ | Configure SNMP servers for traps and monitoring. |
| ❑ | If a UPS is being used, get the IP address of the UPS device and the UPS SNMP community string. |
| Oracle FS System Manager GUI access | |
| ❑ | Ensure that you have the default customer login and the default support login. |
| ❑ | Download and install the GUI or the command line interface (CLI) or both from http://system-name-ip, where system-name-ip is the name or the public IP address of your system. |
| SAN storage parameters | |
| ❑ | Understand enough about SANs to specify capacity, type of redundancy, priority over other volumes, random or sequential file access, read or write I/O bias, and Clone LUN space requirements. |