A preassembled HCP with SAN-attached storage system arrives with its internal physical connections complete:
- The nodes are connected to the back-end switches.
- The back-end switches are connected to each other.
- All the components are plugged into the PDUs.
For a system ordered without a rack, the instructions in Mounting unracked components, tell you how to make all the internal connections.
To get the system up and running in your environment, you need to make the external physical connections. You need to connect:
- The PDUs to the power sources
- The HCP system to your corporate network
This chapter provides instructions for these activities.