3. Installing Acronis Cyber Appliance¶

Before installing Acronis Cyber Appliance, make sure you have the following:

• 3U of server rack space in a standard 19-inch cabinet
• At least five free 1/10 GbE ports in a network switch (10 GbE recommended)
• At least five RJ45-to-RJ45 patch cables to connect the appliance to the switch
• Two power sockets

If you want to set up network bonding, you will additionally need (a) five free 1/10 GbE ports in a network switch (10 GbE recommended) and (b) five RJ45-to-RJ45 patch cables to connect the appliance to the switch.

If you want to have access to the nodes from a remote console for out-of-band management, you will additionally need (a) six free 1 GbE ports in a network switch and (b) six RJ45-to-RJ45 patch cables to connect the appliance to the switch.

To install Acronis Cyber Appliance, perform the following steps:

1. Unpack Acronis Cyber Appliance.
2. Mount the appliance into a rack.
3. Connect cables to the appliance.
4. Configure Acronis Cyber Appliance by using the wizard.
5. Log in to the admin panel and install a license.
6. Set up the desired workloads in the admin panel.

Steps one through five are described in the following sections. For more information about step six, refer to Administrator’s Guide.