The following 53xx appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:

• The remote management (IPMI) port

  Used to connect to the Veritas Remote Management Interface.

  Note:

  The remote management port must be configured before you begin initial configuration. If it is not configured, do one of the following:

  For a 5350, 5360 or 5372 appliance, refer to the Hardware Installation guides for the procedure.

  For a 5340 appliance, contact Technical Support and ask your representative to reference article 100042482.

• host1 or host0

  Used to connect to the Flex Appliance Console. Cohesity recommends that you connect both host1 and host0 for maximum resiliency, but only one of them is required.

  Note:

  These ports are labeled ETH0 and ETH1 on the 53xx nodes.

• privnic1 and privnic0 (multi-node appliances only)

  Used for communication between nodes.

  Note:

  These ports are labeled ETH2 and ETH3 on the 53xx nodes.

• Four to eight 25-10Gb Ethernet ports per node on the 5372

  Four to eight 25-10Gb Ethernet ports per node on the 5360

  Two to eight 25-10Gb Ethernet ports per node on the 5350

  Two to ten 10Gb Ethernet ports per node on the 5340

  Used for the application instances.

The following 52xx appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:

• The remote management (IPMI) port

  Used to connect to the Veritas Remote Management Interface.

  Note:

  The remote management port must be configured before you begin initial configuration. If it is not configured, refer to the Hardware Installation guides for the procedure.

• host0

  host1 (only for 5270 appliance)

  Used to connect to the Flex Appliance Console.

• Two to eight 25-10Gb Ethernet ports on the 5270

  Two to six 25-10Gb Ethernet ports on the 5260

  Two to six 25-10Gb Ethernet ports on the 5250

  Used for the application instances.

The following 5150 appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:

• The remote management (IPMI) port

  Used to connect to the Veritas Remote Management Interface.

  Note:

  The remote management port must be configured before you begin initial configuration. If it is not configured, refer to the 5150 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide for the procedure.

• host0

  Used to connect to the Flex Appliance Console.

• Two 25-10Gb Ethernet ports, two 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports, or four 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports, depending on the purchase configuration

  Used for the application instances.

The computer that you use to configure the appliance should be set up to avoid the following events:

• Conditions that cause the computer to go to sleep

• Conditions that cause the computer to turn off or to lose power

• Conditions that cause the computer to lose its network connection

Before the configuration, gather the following information:

• (53xx appliance only) IP address for the Flex Appliance Console

• (53xx appliance only) Hostname for the Flex Appliance Console

  The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) can be a maximum of 45 characters.

  Note:

  On 53xx appliances, the Flex Appliance Console IP address/hostname must be unique and must not match the IP address/hostname of any node configured using the setup configure-network command.

• IP address for each node in the appliance

• Hostname for each node in the appliance

  The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) can be a maximum of 45 characters.

• Default gateway

• (Optional) DNS server IP address

• DNS domain

• (Optional) Search domain

New appliances are shipped with the following default login credentials:

• Username: hostadmin

• Password: P@ssw0rd

Make sure that the following ports are open if a firewall exists between the appliance and the network:

• 22 (SSH) must be allowed to each node.

• 443 (HTTPS) must be allowed to the Flex Appliance Console.