Deployment Guide

13 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
4 Getting ready for cluster setup
The next steps are done using a management workstation, not the appliance. Connect the management
workstation for cluster set up to the same production network subnet where the XC Xpress appliance resides.
Before you start this section, make sure you have completed the Deployment checklist and read the
prerequisites sections in the Appendix. If you have any issues, see the Troubleshooting sections prior to
calling Technical Support.
The following tasks are described in more detail below in the following sections:
 Download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
 Download Google Chrome (Nutanix recommends)
 Setting up the Nutanix Customer Portal
 Downloading Foundation Applet
 Downloading Fabric Manager
4.1 Downloading Java Runtime Environment
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to launch the Nutanix Foundation Applet from your Windows
based management station. The latest JRE is located at https://www.java.com and is a free download.
Note: Make sure all the appliances have run their first boot script before doing this task.
Note: Java version 8 (1.8.0) or later is required to use the Foundations Applet.
1. On the Windows Control panel, open the Java (32-bit) applet.
2. On the Security tab, click High and add an exception for the local applets by adding the following to
the site list:
file:/