USB flash drive and Initialization tool interface

Use a USB flash drive to initialize a system and also to help service the node canisters in a control enclosure.

The initialization tool is a Windows application. Use the initialization tool to set up the USB flash drive to perform the most common tasks.

When a USB flash drive is inserted into one of the USB ports on a node canister in a control enclosure, the software searches for a control file on the USB flash drive and runs the command that is specified in the file. When the command completes, the command results and node status information are written to the USB flash drive.

Parent topic: Storwize V7000 system interfaces
Related tasks:
Attaching the Ethernet cables
Procedure: Resetting the Storwize V7000 Gen1 superuser password
Procedure: Changing the service IP address of a node canister