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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| Site audit: 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 installation site in preparation of the installation. |
| ❑ | Note any problems or peculiarities at the site that require special equipment. |
| ❑ | Determine if the power circuits are in place with adequate capacity and appropriate power outlet and cord connector types. |
| ❑ | 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 5º— 35º Celsius (41ºF — 95ºF) 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 | |
| ❑ | Ensure that there is a clear space of 21 feet (6.7 meters) for safely rolling the racks off the pallet using the supplied ramps. |
| ❑ | Determine if there is a standard loading dock or if a truck with a lift gate is required. Trucks with a proper lift gate might require special schedule considerations. |
| Grounding requirements | |
| ❑ | Determine if all powered racked 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. |
| 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 or 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:
Note: If the installer gets three replacement IP addresses, then those replacement IP addresses must be used instead of the factory default IP addresses.
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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. |
| ❑ | Get 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. |
| ❑ | Set 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. |
| 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. |
| ❑ | If a UPS is being used, get the IP address of the UPS device and the UPS SNMP community string. |
| 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. |