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Chapter 1
Components provided with the 6900/8900 platform
Peripheral hardware that you provide
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The 6900/8900 platform comes with the hardware that you need for
installation. However, you must also provide standard peripheral hardware,
such as a serial terminal, if you want to administer the 6900/8900 platform
directly.
When you unpack the 6900/8900 platform, you should make sure that the
following components are included:
• Four SFP optical transceivers
• Two power cables (black)
• One failover cable (blue)
• One console cable (beige)
• One front bezel
• Rack-mounting hardware (front-mounting kit and rail-mounting kit)
For each 6900/8900 platform, you need to provide the following peripheral
hardware:
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If you plan to use direct administrative access to the platform, you need
standard input/output hardware. This requires a serial terminal and a null
modem cable.
If you want to use the default platform configuration, you must have an
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administrative workstation on the same IP network as the platform.
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You also need network hubs, switches, or concentrators to connect to the
platform network interfaces. The devices you select must be compatible
with the network interface cards installed in the platform. The devices
can support 10/100 Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet:
• Ethernet requires either a 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps hub or switch.
• Gigabit Ethernet requires a compatible Gigabit Ethernet switch.
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You can use an external CD/DVD-ROM drive or a USB compact flash
drive that is compatible with the system for installing upgrades and for
system recovery. Even though most CD/DVD-ROM and USB compact
flash drives should work, we cannot guarantee compatibility with all
makes and models.
If you plan on doing remote administration from your own PC workstation
as most users do, we recommend that you have your workstation already in
place on the same subnet to which the management interface is connected.
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