Enclosures (number)

single | dual

Example: Dell PowerEdge M1000e

Storage servers/blades (number)

3 or more

Example: Dell PowerEdge R440

Application servers needing direct cluster access

name, purpose

List all.
Example: Enterprise Vault, information governance

Content Gateway (S3) used?

yes | no

Both your Content Gateway and your production Elasticsearch cluster need to be on separate machines from your management node (Platform Server or CSN). The management node installs with Service Proxy and a single-node ES, which are dedicated to the Swarm UI.

DHCP server at deployment site?

yes | no

Network Time Protocol (NTP) time server(s)

name/IP address

List all. Use of a local NTP server is best practice

Domain Name Service (DNS) server(s)

name/IP address

List all.

LDAP / Active Directory server(s)

name/IP address

List all.

Timezone of deployment

abbrev, offset

Example: CDT, UTC -5

Default gateway for deployment network

name/IP address

Subnet mask for deployment network

Example: 255.255.255.0

Name of storage cluster (default domain)

defaultdomain.example.com

Must be a DNS fully qualified name format

Default object replicas

Reps = 2

Default erasure-coding scheme

5:2 for objects > 1 MB

Cluster replicated?

Yes | No

Reserved IPs for Swarm management services

IP1, IP2

Each enclosure needs an assigned IP for this use

Storage be accessed by SSL/TLS?

Yes | No

If yes, do you have an SSL/TLS server certificate?

Yes | No

Is a load balancer  or SSL offload system already in place?

Yes | No

Content Gateway use which identity system?

Default (PAM)
LDAP
Active Directory
None (anonymous)

 Operating system to install?

CentOS or RHEL

If using RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), the site needs a Red Hat license

IP address(es) reserved for the ESXi host machine(s)

IP(s)

Must be reserved from the network where the solution is deployed.

System name (FQDN) for vCenter Server Appliance management endpoint

Must be reserved and is required for SSL certificate creation by VMware vCenter.

vCenter Server Appliance management endpoint

Hostname / DNS

Create a vCenter SSO domain or use an existing?

New | Existing

vCenter SSO domain

vCenter SSO site name

iDRAC gateway

IP

For the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) interface, enter IP addresses to be assigned for iDRAC access

iDRAC subnet

IP