EMC® VNXe™ Series Configuration Worksheet
Part Number: 300-012-124 | Rev A01
Use this worksheet to collect necessary information for configuring your EMC® VNXeTM system through the
following interfaces:
• EMC Online Support website: User account information
• VNXe Connection Utility: System network address
• EMC UnisphereTM Configuration wizard: Initial configuration settings
Record the following settings to help configure your VNXe system for the first time:
Item Value
User account information
EMC Online Support account name: ____________________
First and last name associated with your EMC Online Support account.
EMC Online Support
Country: ____________________
Primary language:
website
Language preference for the account. ____________________
Email address:
Email address to receive product notifications and updates. ____________________
Password:
Password for your EMC Online Support account.
Security questions:
Two security questions to validate your identity if your password is lost or compromised.
System network address
VNXe system Product ID / SN:
Unique identifier associated with the VNXe system (provided on a tag residing on the back
of the system DPE component) that you can use to register your system on the EMC
Online Support website.
VNXe Connection
Use this ID to identify your system when you use the Connection Utility auto-discover
feature to find VNXe systems on a subnet. ____________________
System name:
Utility
Name for the VNXe system. ____________________
IP address:
Management address through which Unisphere connects to the VNXe system. ____________________
Subnet mask:
IP address mask for the local network. ____________________
Gateway address:
IP address of the default gateway for the management interface. ____________________
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When you log in to Unisphere for the first time, log in with the factory default administrator account username
and password (case-sensitive):
• Default admin username: admin
• Default admin account password: Password123#
Note: When you log in to Unisphere for the first time, you must agree to accept a self-signed certificate for the VNXe
system.
Initial system configuration settings
New administrator account password:
New service account password:
Unisphere Configuration
DNS server (IP address): ____________________
Secondary DNS servers, optional.
____________________
Time (NTP) server domain name or IP address: ____________________
wizard
Secondary NTP servers, optional. ____________________
Accept Unisphere for VNXe default disk configuration (optional): Y/N?
Choose whether to automatically configure system storage disks into standard pools based
on disk availability.
If you do not accept this option, the Unisphere Disk Configuration wizard starts
automatically when the Unisphere Configuration wizard closes. The Disk Configuration
wizard enables you to configure custom storage pools based on disk availability and
application storage usage.
Enable EMC Product Support options (optional): Y/N?
SMTP email server:
If you enable this option, provide the network address of an SMTP email server for ____________________
transferring alert messages through the EMC ConnectHome feature.
EMC Online Support credentials
____________________
Username:
Password: ____________________
Enter credentials associated with an EMC Online Support account. These credentials
enable you to access realtime support contract information through Unisphere.
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Item Value
Storage Server information
Choose Storage Server type (optional): Shared Folder Server /
Choose to create the following storage servers based on your network storage needs: iSCSI Server
• Create a Shared Folder Server for providing file-based storage resources for hosts,
applications, and users.
• Create an iSCSI Server for providing block-based (iSCSI) storage resources for hosts
and applications.
Note: You cannot provision VNXe storage unless at least one Storage Server is configured.
Shared Folder Server settings (optional)
Creating a Shared Folder Server enables you to provision shared folders and VMware NFS datastores.
Server name: ____________________
IP address: ____________________
Subnet mask: ____________________
Gateway address (Shared Folder Servers only): ____________________
Unisphere Configuration
Advanced: Storage Processor (SP) SP A / SP B
If multiple SPs are available, choose the storage processor (SP A or SP B) where the
Storage Server runs. On multiple-SP systems, you can balance the system processing load
by choosing the SPs where specific Storage Servers run.
wizard
Advanced: Ethernet port ____________________
Ethernet port for Storage Server traffic.
Advanced: VLAN ID ____________________
Virtual LAN (VLAN) ID to associate with traffic transferred through the Storage Server.
Share Folder type: Linux/UNIX shares (NFS) /
Select whether to support Linux/UNIX (NFS), Windows (CIFS) shares, or both on the Windows shares (CIFS)
Shared Folder Server.
Windows/CIFS share settings (optional)
Windows domain:
Domain name of an Active Directory server used to access with Windows (CIFS) shared ____________________
folders.
DNS server(s):
DNS server(s) to associate with Windows shared folders. ____________________
Active Directory account:
Account credentials for an account with privileges to add new computers to the specified
Windows domain.
____________________
User Name:
Password: ____________________
Organizational unit:
(Optional) Organizational unit (OU) to associate with the Shared Folder Server within the ____________________
specified Windows domain.
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iSCSI Server settings (optional)
An iSCSI Server is required for provisioning iSCSI-based storage, such as Exchange
storage resources, Hyper-V datastores, or VMware VMFS datastores.
Server name:
Unisphere Configuration
____________________
IP address: ___________________
Subnet mask: ____________________
wizard
Advanced: Storage Processor SP A / SP B
If multiple SPs are available, choose the SP (SP A or SP B) where the Storage Server runs.
On multiple-SP systems, you can balance the system processing load by choosing the SPs
where specific Storage Servers run.
Advanced: Ethernet port ____________________
Ethernet port for Storage Server traffic.
Advanced: VLAN ID ____________________
Virtual LAN (VLAN) ID to associate with traffic transferred through the Storage Server.
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