Users Guide

Deploying your appliance

Before you deploy your appliance, ensure that you read through this document and have yourself familiarized with the process and

required materials.

WARNING: Before you set up and operate your Dell appliance, review the safety instructions that shipped with your

storage enclosure.

WARNING: The weight of your appliance without the physical disk drives installed (empty weight) is 36.5 kg (80.5 lb).

WARNING: Your appliance must be installed by Dell certied service technicians.

CAUTION: Before installing your appliance in the rack, make sure that the weight of the appliance does not exceed the

weight limit of the rack. For more information, see the Rack Installation instructions that shipped with your appliance.

NOTE: For weight stability, always load the rack by using bottom-up approach.

NOTE: This solution is deployed by Dell Services. The following deployment steps provide an outline of what Dell

Services accomplishes during the deployment process.

Important information about SATADOM

The SATA Disk‐On‐Motherboard (SATADOM) shipped with XC Series appliances is intended as an appliance boot device.

NOTE: Write intensive activities and processes leveraged by XC appliances, are intended to take place on the SSDs and

HDDs and not the boot device.

The hypervisor boot device is not intended for application use.

WARNING: Adding additional write intensive software to the SATADOM boot disk results in heavy wear on the device

beyond design specications resulting in premature hardware failure.

You should not run applications on the hypervisor operating system.

Examples of write intensive applications

Following are the examples of write intensive applications:

• System Center Agents.

– System Center Conguration Manager (CCMExec.exe).

– System Center Operations Manager (MonitoringHost.exe).

• Write‐intensive Agents.

• Databases.

• Disk management utilities (third-party disk defragmentation or partitioning tools).

• Additional roles outside of the appliance’s intended use (web server, domain controller, RDS, and so on.).

• Client‐based Antivirus.

• Run Virtual Machines directly on the SATADOM. Ensure that the Virtual Machines run on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Hard

Disk Drives (HDDs).