Install Powervaults And 15-Drive Dacs On A Series 5 Or Series 6 Host (Mixed Mode); Minimum Netwitness Platform Software Versions; Introduction - Dell MD1400-16TB Setup Manual

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PowerVault (Dell MD1400 - 16TB) Setup Guide

Install PowerVaults and 15-Drive DACs on a

Series 5 or Series 6 Host (Mixed Mode)

This topic describes how to install PowerVault and 15-Drive DAC external storage devices on a

NetWitness:

Series 5 Decoder, Log Decoder, and Archiver host. The Series 5 host must have an additional

H830 PERC Card installed.

Series 6 Decoder, Log Decoder, and Archiver host. The Series 6 host must have an additional

H840 PERC Card installed.

Contact your NetWitness sales rep for information on how to purchase PERC Cards.

Note: For information on how to install the PERC Cards, see the NetWitness Platform PCI

Expansion Card Installation Guide.

For NetWitness Platform Software 11.x, the minimum version is 11.5.0.0.

Caution: If you are adding a previously used external storage device and would like to

preserve the data, DO NOT follow the instructions in this guide. Contact NetWitness

Customer Support. Running the script on a previously used external storage device could erase

any existing data.

The following table contains the summarized installation instructions for different deployments,

and detailed procedures are in individual subsections. The deployment scenario is two

PowerVaults and two 15-Drive DACs in a (Network) Decoder, Log Decoder, and Archiver

deployment.

Install PowerVaults and 15-Drive DACs on a Series 5 or Series 6 Host (Mixed

Mode)

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