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Required information and materials

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Before you install StorageGRID, gather and prepare the required information and materials.

Required information

Network plan

Which networks you intend to attach to each StorageGRID node. StorageGRID supports multiple networks for traffic separation, security, and administrative convenience.

See the StorageGRID Networking guidelines.

Network information

Unless you are using DHCP, IP addresses to assign to each grid node and the IP addresses of the DNS and NTP servers.

Servers for grid nodes

Identify a set of servers (physical, virtual, or both) that, in aggregate, provide sufficient resources to support the number and type of StorageGRID nodes you plan to deploy.

Note If your StorageGRID installation will not use StorageGRID appliance (hardware) Storage Nodes, you must use hardware RAID storage with battery-backed write cache (BBWC). StorageGRID does not support the use of virtual storage area networks (vSANs), software RAID, or no RAID protection.
Node migration (if needed)

Understand the requirements for node migration, if you want to perform scheduled maintenance on physical hosts without any service interruption.

Related information

NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool

Required materials

NetApp StorageGRID license

You must have a valid, digitally signed NetApp license.

Note A non-production license, which can be used for testing and proof of concept grids, is included in the StorageGRID installation archive.
StorageGRID installation archive

Download the StorageGRID installation archive and extract the files.

Service laptop

The StorageGRID system is installed through a service laptop.

The service laptop must have:

StorageGRID documentation