How To Validate a Farm

Because the Control Center does not check for good design, you must do this manually.

Steps

1. Review the farm design in the Editor screen with the following design details in mind:

   For each external subnet connection, the following six IP addresses are used for administrative overhead:

   • Network base address

   • A virtual interface for monitoring connectivity

   • Edge Router 1

   • Edge Router 2

   • HSRP address

   • Broadcast address

2. Verify that the external subnet connection specified is acceptable.

   For example, the user did not request a whole class C address space.

3. If the farm design is valid, proceed to Farm Activation Tasks.

4. If the farm is already active and is being updated, refer to Updating Active Farms for instructions.

5. If the farm design is invalid, refer to Cancelling a Farm Request for instructions on how to cancel or reject the activation request.