Customer makes decisions about their enterprise partitions, and prepares the data center.

See Planning Your Partitions to learn more about partition planning.

See Physical Requirements for physical requirements for the data center.

Customer gathers prerequisite configuration information like network IP addresses.

See Network Planning for the list of network details needed.

Unisys installs the hardware.

Installation procedures are described in the Installation and Configuration Guide for the Unisys service representative.

Unisys performs initial configuration of the software, including configuring network settings for the Fabric Management Platform and creating LUNs for customer use. If the customer purchased the Unisys High Availability package for the Fabric Management Platform (FMP), Unisys prepares the environment and sets up the cluster as well.

Configuration procedures are described in the Installation and Configuration Guide for the Unisys service representative.

Customer completes cabling of the fabric to their enterprise network.

Cabling procedures are described in Completing Initial Installation and Configuration.

Customer creates secure fabrics.

Cabling procedures are described in Creating a Secure Fabric.

Customer commissions partition images on partitionable enterprise partition platforms or installs operating systems on nonpartitionable enterprise partition platforms.

Commissioning and operating system installation procedures are described in the Installation and Getting Started topic.

Customer performs configuration for the operating system instances, including configuring LAN and SAN settings, and installs desired applications for production use.