This topic describes the information that is required for initial installation and configuration of the Delphix Engine.
Information Required for Installation
- Name of the Delphix Engine (for example, mydelphix1)
- Network configuration for static DHCP lease or static IP address
Static IP address and Subnet Mask in CDIR notation (for example, 10.80.142.82/24) (not required for static DHCP configuration)
Gateway IP address
DNS server IP address(es) (not required if DHCP supplies the DNS servers)
Domain of the Delphix Engine installation, such as mydomain.com
Selection of storage devices for the operating system disks. Check the hypervisor specific pages for more information on storage requirements.
Information Required for Initial Configuration
NTP server for setting system time (optional)
Web Proxy server to support phonehome (optional)
SMTP server to support email notification
- IP address or name (for example, smtp.gmail.com)
- Port number
- Email address from which you want the Delphix Engine to send email (for example, delphix@mydelphix1.mydomain.com)
LDAP Server for authentication (optional)
- IP address or name (for example, ldap.mydomain.com)
- Port number
- SNMP Server for notifications
- IP address or name (for example, snmp.mydomain.com)
- Port number
- Community String
Desired password for sysadmin user (this default user can be replaced) - For the ServerSetup application
- Email address for messages sent to the sysadmin user
Desired password for admin user (this default user can be replaced) - For the Delphix Management application
- Email address for messages sent to the admin user
- See The admin and sysadmin User Roles for more information.