HP StorageWorks 64 - SAN Director Switch Planning Manual page 147

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Complete the planning checklists under this task. The checklists provide detailed
planning activities and provide space for a planned completion date for each
activity. The customer's management information system (MIS) project manager
should examine the checklists and determine the personnel and resources required
for completing planning and installation tasks.
Customer personnel might be used from the following functional areas:
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SAN High Availability Planning Guide
Security necessary to protect the installation's physical integrity, while
maintaining accessibility to the director or switch.
Equipment rack front and rear service clearances, operator clearances, and
maintenance access clearances.
Weight of an equipment rack. Either multiple persons or a lift must be
available during installation to remove the rack from the packing crate.
Heat dissipation, temperature and humidity requirements.
Systems programming personnel to update input/output (I/O) definitions to
identify directors and switches.
Ethernet management personnel to obtain IP addresses, gateway addresses,
and subnet masks for directors, switches, and the HAFM server, and a domain
name system (DNS) host name for the HAFM server.
Facilities planning personnel to outline the facility floor plan and to arrange
for electrical wiring, receptacles and telephone lines.
Installation planning personnel to determine fiber-optic and Ethernet cabling
requirements, routing requirements, and to plan connectivity between each
director, switch, and attached devices.
Trainers to determine training and education needs for operations,
administration, and maintenance personnel.
Administrators to determine director port names and WWN nicknames,
identify attached devices, and assign password levels and user names for
director and switch access.
Configuration Planning Tasks
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