Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Getting started
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Viewing the hardware status
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
Review the following information before you perform the initial configuration on a new Veritas Flex appliance:
Table: Flex Appliance configuration guidelines and checklist
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Network cabling for the Veritas 53xx Appliance | The following Veritas 53xx Appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:
See the Hardware Installation or the Product Description guides for more details. |
Network cabling for the Veritas 52xx Appliance | The following Veritas 52xx Appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:
See the Hardware Installation or the Product Description guides for more details. |
Network cabling for the Veritas 5150 Appliance | The following Veritas 5150 Appliance ports must be connected to the network for initial configuration:
See the Veritas 5150 Appliance Hardware Installation Guide or the Veritas 5150 Appliance Product Description for more details. |
Connectivity during initial configuration | When you perform the appliance initial configuration, you must take precautions to avoid loss of connectivity. Any loss of connectivity during initial configuration results in failure. The computer that you use to configure the appliance should be set up to avoid the following events:
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Required names and addresses | Before the configuration, gather the following information:
Note: The following subnets are reserved for internal use and cannot be used for the appliance network: 192.168.227.0/24 and fdf8:192:168:227::/120 192.168.228.0/24 and fdf8:192:168:228::/120 192.168.229.0/24 and fdf8:192:168:229::/120 192.168.230.0/24 and fdf8:192:168:230::/120 If you plan to use DNS, make sure that forward and reverse DNS lookups are configured properly in your environment. If a forward or a reverse DNS lookup returns multiple records, the initial configuration may fail. You can check the DNS configuration with the following commands for each node. Each command should return only one entry. Linux: dig +short @<DNS server IP address> a <node FQDN> dig +short @<DNS server IP address> -x <node IP address> Windows: nslookup <node IP address> nslookup <node hostname> |
Default username and password | New appliances are shipped with the following default login credentials:
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Firewall port usage | Make sure that the following ports are open if a firewall exists between the appliance and the network:
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