Before you power on the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for the first time, ensure that you have made the necessary external network connections according to the instructions provided in Section 3.1, “Network Connection and IP Address Requirements”.

In addition, you need to connect a workstation with a monitor to the available Ethernet port 48 in the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP Switch, and statically configure its 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”.