Planning Your Fabric

There are several things to consider, decisions to make, and data to collect to ensure that your fabric meets your needs. It is best to begin this planning as early as possible—prior to the system arriving at your site, and in some cases even prior to ordering the system.

Network Planning

Understanding the network environment and making some decisions about how to enable communications within the environment so that you can utilize your fabric effectively

Installation and Upgrade Planning

Overview of the installation, configuration, and upgrade process

Planning Your Partitions

Planning the partitions on your enterprise partition platform

Understanding Time Management

Options for synchronizing time on the enterprise partition platforms in your fabric

Recovery Planning

Backing up your files and settings so that you can quickly restore them in case of a catastrophic failure