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After installing and powering on the purpose-built Dell Unity system for the first time, the operating environment will boot. After the system boot is complete, the system will be placed in a discovery mode in order for a management address to be assigned. If a DHCP server exists in the environment where the Dell Unity system is installed, it will obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. The management IP address can be set using Connection Utility (see Figure 1), available for Windows. Both IPv4 and/or IPv6 are supported by Dell Unity for management. The Connection Utility application can be obtained online from Dell Support.
Connection Utility will discover and configure any configurable Dell Unity systems on the same subnet as the host Connection Utility is being run from. Connection Utility can also be used to save an IP configuration to a USB drive, which can be inserted into the Dell Unity system and applied automatically. This is useful in situations where Connection Utility cannot be run from the same subnet as the Dell Unity system.
Once an IP has been set, Unisphere can be accessed using the assigned IP address from a web browser. On first login to the Dell Unity system, the Initial Configuration Wizard will be presented. The Initial Configuration Wizard assembles frequently accessed configuration settings into a step-by-step workflow in order to quickly license and configure the Dell Unity system for immediate use.
For more information about the Initial Configuration Wizard, see the Dell Unity: Unisphere Overview white paper.