Environment Planning

Research and itemize these environment components before deploying any Swarm Storage solution:

Component	Value	Notes

Component	Value	Notes
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

Swarm Planning

Plan for how the Swarm Storage cluster is configured:

Component	Example	Notes

Component	Example	Notes
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

If using virtual machines in the deployment, research and itemize the following:

Component	Value	Notes

Component	Value	Notes
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

Complete these registrations before proceeding: