If desired, create one or more secure fabrics. For more information, see Creating a Secure Fabric.

If you want bare metal servers and virtual machines (VMs) in your Ethernet customer corporate LAN environment to participate as members of a secure fabric, configure the optional InfiniBand-Ethernet gateway switch. For more information, see Configuring InfiniBand-Ethernet Gateway Switch.

For partitionable enterprise partition platforms, install operating systems to a partition on the partitionable enterprise partition platform. Depending on the source for your operating system images, see Creating a Partition with a Unisys-Supplied OS or Creating a Partition with a Customer-Supplied OS on a PEPP.

For nonpartitionable enterprise partition platforms, install one of the supported customer-supplied operating systems. For more information, see Creating a Partition with a Customer-Supplied OS on a NEPP.

The Fabric Manager database and configuration files should be backed up after completing initial configuration and whenever the configuration is changed. For more information, see Fabric Manager Backup.