.. _Appliance Exterior:

Appliance Exterior
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The appliance consists of five identical nodes. On the front of the appliance, under the front bezel are the power/reset buttons, a power LED of each node as well as the main power switch. The front panel also provides access to disks of each node: three per node, ordered left to right, i.e. the leftmost three disks are of node #1, the next three are of node #2, etc.

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On the back of the appliance are two power sockets and a number of connectivity options.

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Each node has its own network, IPMI, USB, and VGA ports.

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The IPMI, USB, and VGA ports are only needed for advanced diagnostics. IPMI allows accessing the nodes over the network for out-of-band management via a remote console. The default IPMI password to access the management node via SSH is ``Acronis!Infra%30`` (it changes to a user-specified password during deployment). The USB and VGA ports allow you to connect a keyboard and a monitor to a node if the network is unavailable.

Day-to-day management of the appliance is done over the network through the admin panel, as described later in the guide.