Before you power on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for the first time, ensure that you have made the necessary external network connections. These are different depending on the system network architecture. Refer to the section with instructions for your appliance type:
In addition, you need to connect a workstation with a monitor to the appliance internal management network switch. The switch and port to connect to, are different depending on the system network architecture.
Ethernet-based appliance: connect the workstation to port 48 in the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch
InfiniBand-based appliance: connect the workstation to port 19 in one of the Oracle Switch ES1-24 switches
Statically configure the workstation IP address to
192.168.4.254. Start a web browser session in
order to initially administer your Oracle Private Cloud Appliance using the
pre-defined IP address (192.168.4.216). For
more information, see
Section 5.3.5, “Connect the Appliance to the Network”.