HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 Planning Manual page 174

Configuration Planning Tasks
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:
Table 4
activity, task owner, due date, and comments.
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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 appliance and a
domain name system (DNS) host name for the HAFM appliance.
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 and routing requirements and to plan connectivity between each
director, switch, and attached device.
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.
lists physical planning and hardware installation tasks and includes the
SAN High Availability Planning Guide