.. _Connecting Cables to the Appliance:

Connecting Cables to the Appliance
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.. note:: For more details on configuring the network infrastructure, see the *Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator's Guide*.

To prepare the appliance for configuration, do the following:

#. Connect the appliance to the electrical outlets using the supplied power cables.

#. Connect network interfaces #1 of all nodes (**1** on the diagram) to a switch (**2** on the diagram) with access to a dedicated subnet for your software-defined infrastructure. The nodes have preconfigured IP addresses: 10.20.20.11 to 10.20.20.15. Connect the admin laptop (**3** on the diagram) to the same switch.

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#. (Optional) Connect the out-of-band management network interfaces of each node and the chassis (**1** on the diagram) to a switch with access to the IPMI subnet for your appliance (**2** on the diagram). The nodes have preconfigured IPMI IP addresses: 10.20.30.11 to 10.20.30.15. The chassis has the preconfigured IPMI IP address 10.20.30.10. Connect the admin laptop (**3** on the diagram) to the same switch.

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