1. Quick Start Guide
  2. Connect Cables and Power On
  3. Connect to the Network

Connect to the Network

While preparing for the installation (see Verify Installation Requirements) of your Private Cloud Appliance, you selected a physical uplink design and verified network infrastructure requirements for your configuration. Refer to the Initial Installation Checklist you filled out.

Now connect the spine switches of the appliance to your data center network according to the selected design.

  1. On each spine switch, connect ports 1-4 to the data center public Ethernet network.

    • For 100Gbps or 40Gbps uplinks, use 1-4 MPO-to-MPO cable connections per spine switch.

    • For 25Gbps or 10Gbps uplinks, split spine switch ports using an MPO-to-4xLC breakout cable. Connect 1-16 uplinks per spine switch.

    • Connect the outgoing cables from the spine switches to the data center network device(s) according to your selected topology: mesh, square or triangle. For detailed information on uplink design, refer to the section titled "Uplinks" in the Hardware Overview chapter of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Concepts Guide.

  2. If you elected to segregate the administration network from the data network, connect port 5 on each spine switch to the ports reserved for this purpose on your data center network device(s).