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Detailed guide

This guide gives detailed step-by-step instructions for installing a typical Lenovo system. Use this guide if you want more detailed installation instructions.

  1. Preparing for installation
    To install your DG5000 system, you need to create an account and register the system. You also need to inventory the appropriate number and type of cables for your system and collect specific network information.
  2. Installing the hardware
    You need to install your system in a 4-post rack or Lenovo system cabinet, as applicable.
  3. Cabling controllers
    There is required cabling for your platform's cluster using the two-node switchless cluster method or the cluster interconnect network method. There is optional cabling to the Fibre Channel or iSCSI host networks or direct-attached storage. This cabling is not exclusive; you can have cabling to a host network and storage.
  4. Completing system setup and configuration
    You can complete the system setup and configuration using cluster discovery with only a connection to the switch and laptop, or by connecting directly to a controller in the system and then connecting to the management switch.