Step 2. Set up the physical or virtual appliance

The setup instructions in this section are different when installing to a physical appliance or a virtual appliance.

Physical Appliance
After the appliance has been loaded into the customer's rack, connect the appliance to the network in the following manner:
Identify network ports
Use the following CLI commands to map the network ports.
Default passwords for physical appliances
Default passwords are supplied for predefined users.
Virtual appliance
The IBM Security Guardium Virtual Machine (VM) is a software-only solution licensed and installed on a guest virtual machine such as VMware ESX Server.

Parent topic: Installing your Guardium Data Protection system