Cohesity C2605 initial setup

Easy way to deploy physical Cohesity cluster.

Remember to read installation prerequisites prior to starting an installation.

1. Rack your Cohesity, cable as in Cohesity manual and configure your switches

2. Connect Monitor to one node and check the IP

3. Configure i.e. laptop with 169.254.0.1/16 IP address and connect to the same network Cohesity is on.
4. Brows to Cohesity Node IP https://169.254.4.16

5. Choose cluster nodes (3 minimum)

6. Configure nodes IP and IPMI

7. Configure cluster settings

For VIP Address I use one IP per node so for this cluster type Node 1 IP, then Node 3 IP - just last octet and click "Add VIP".
Remember Cluste Hostname has to be resolvable and each Node has to have access to DNS & NTP server, otherwise installation fails.

8. Click "Create Cluster", wait few minutes and Cohesity cluster should be up & running.