Completing the initial system setup (customer task)

After the initialization of the new system is complete, use the management GUI to do the initial system setup.

To complete the initial setup of your system, use the management GUI to complete the following high-level tasks.

1. Use a web browser to open: https://your_management_IP
2. Log in to the management GUI for the first time by using ID superuser and password passw0rd.

   After you log in, the initial setup wizard helps you get started.

   Use the information on your worksheets to inform your inputs.

   1. Choose and create a new password.
   2. Configure licensed functions.
      • If encryption was purchased, you can activate it now or later by opening the management GUI and selecting Settings > Security > Encryption.
      • The base license entitles the system to all licensed functions such as Virtualization, FlashCopy®, Global Mirroring, and Metro Mirroring.

        The system supports an optional External Storage Virtualization license to include external storage controllers to your configuration. The license is based on the total amount of capacity that you plan to virtualize from these external storage systems.

   3. If you already use IBM® Storage Insights, log in to Storage Insights, select Add Storage System and register the new system by using the IP address.
      Important: If you do not use IBM Storage Insights, you were registered during the initial system setup. When your Storage Insights interface is ready to use, you receive an email notification. IBM® Storage Insights is an IBM Cloud™ software as a service offering that can help you monitor and optimize the storage resources in the system and across your data center.
   4. If errors exist, you are prompted to resolve them.
   5. Review the system summary page, then click Finish.

      The Initial Setup Wizard closes.

3. If there is more than one control enclosure for your system, go to Monitoring > System > System--Overview and click Add Enclosure.

   Add Enclosure is shown only when a candidate control enclosure exists.

4. Use the System update page of the management GUI to check whether software updates are available for this system. Use the management GUI to help you install any updates.

   During the automatic update process, each node canister in the system is updated one at a time. After all the nodes in the system are successfully restarted with the new code level, the new level is automatically committed.

5. After you complete system set up and add any additional enclosures, create pools and add storage before creating volumes.

   To create pools and add storage, complete these steps:

   1. In the management GUI, select Pools > Pools > Create.
   2. Right-click the new pool on Pools page and select Add Storage. The management GUI displays storage configuration for the drives based on the recommended configuration for the drives within the storage array.
6. Referring to the Call Home and Storage Insights configuration worksheet, use the following URL to register the new system:

   https://call-home.w3ibm.mybluemix.net/activate

7. If you activated an encryption license, click Enable Encryption to complete the encryption setup wizard.
8. If exactly two control enclosures are in the system, you must set up a quorum disk or application outside of the system. If the two control enclosures lose communication with each other, the quorum disk prevents both I/O groups from going offline. For more information, see Configuring quorum.