Hardware And Software Required For Installation; Third-Party Rack Requirements; Hardware And Software Requirements For Dm5500 Installation - Dell PowerProtect DM5500 Installation Manual

Hardware and software required for installation

Before installing the DM5500, review the following table to understand the hardware and software requirements for appliance
installation.
Table 6. Hardware and software requirements for DM5500 installation
Component
Static rail
Rack
Network switch
LC-to-LC multimode fiber (MMF) cables
or direct attach copper twinax network
cables
SFPs
SFPs for switches
LC-to-LC optical cables
RJ45 iDRAC network cable
RJ45 network cables
Service computer
DNS
NTP server address
IP addresses

Third-party rack requirements

The DM5500 must be installed in a customer-provided rack that meets the following requirements:
Requirement category
Rack
16 Overview
Description
Included with the DM5500. Designed to work in any data center rack.
Customer supplied. The DM5500 requires 2U.
The DM5500 requires front and rear access for servicing and should be placed in
the rack to accommodate these requirements.
See Install the DM5500 in the rack
Customer supplied. One or more. 10 GbE support required. 25 GbE support is
optional.
Switch must support VLAN for external (public) communication. Two network
switches are recommended for redundancy.
The DM5500 requires four ports on the switch (10/25 GbE, optical or copper). A 1
GbE NIC port connection to the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
port is strongly recommended. See
cable for more information.
Supplied at no cost from Dell. The customer is given the choice of including
either LC-to-LC optical cables or direct attach (twinax) cables when ordering the
DM5500.
If LC-to-LC optical cables are used (instead of twinax cables), 4 x 10/25 GbE SFPs
can be ordered as a kit from Dell. Use the SFPs provided by Dell when connecting
the 4 GbE ports on the DM5500 to the customer network.
Customer supplied if LC-to-LC optical cables are used.
The LC-to-LC optical cables are an option and can be ordered from Dell or can be
customer supplied.
CAT5e/CAT6 cable for connecting to iDRAC network connection. iDRAC
configuration and cabling provides an out-of-band method for remote management
and may be required for Dell support engineers to debug and troubleshoot.
CAT6a/CAT7 cables for connecting the DM5500 10GBASE-T ports to the customer
network. These cables are required if the customer chooses the DM5500
configuration with the quad 10GBASE-T port HBA in slots 3 and 4.
A service computer is required for initial login. See
service computer for initial DM5500
In the customer data center.
The DM5500 requires access to an NTP server for time synchronization.
See Collect external network
Description
The DM5500 fits in a standard rack with a minimum depth of 37 inches (940 mm).
Recommended 24 inches wide rack to provide room for cable routing on the sides of the rack.
for more information.
Connect network cables
Assign static IP address to the
login.
information.
and Connect iDRAC