Chapter 1: Introduction; Chassis Physical Design - Dell EMC Virtual Edge Platform 1405 Series Operating System Installation Manual

This document provides the operating system installation steps for the Dell EMC Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) 1405 series of
systems. The steps that are provided have been tested and verified on VEP1405 devices using the following information:
Table 1. Operating system information
Feature
Ubuntu operating system image
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
operating system image
ESXi 7.0 operating system image
ADVA operating system image
The recommended minimum device configuration for the VEP1405 series before installing the operating system is as follows:
Table 2. VEP1405 series recommended minimum firmware versions
Feature
DIAG OS
DIAG Tools
Firmware Updater
BIOS version (4-core)
BIOS version (8-core and 16-core) 3.48.0.9-11 (for VEP1405 series)
CPLD version
PIC

Chassis physical design

Table 3. Dell EMC Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) 1405 model descriptions
Model CPU
VEP1425 4-core
4 Introduction
Description
ubuntu-18.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso
rhel-server-7.5-x86_64-dvd.iso
VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-16324942.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A03.iso
SVCS_connector-18.4.1.31-18.4-factory-dell-57.iso
Configuration option 1 ( Versa
ready)
3.43.3.81-18
3.43.4.81-19
1.6
3.48.0.9-11 (for VEP1405 series)
3.48.0.9-12 (for VEP1405N series)
3.48.0.9-12 (for VEP1405N series)
0.7
v20J
Description
● 8 GB DDR4
● 16 GB eMMC
● 120 GB SSD
● 2x 2 Wi-Fi
● 6x 1 GB Copper RJ45
● 2x 10 GB SFP+
● Versa software installed
● Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 - World-wide except China
● 2x USB 3.0
● Low-energy Bluetooth (BLE)
Introduction
Configuration option 2 (ADVA ready)
3.43.3.81-18
3.43.4.81-19
1.6
(4-core option is not available)
3.48.0.9-11
0.7
v20J
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