Dell EMC Unity Prerequisites

1. The minimum required version of the Unity Operating Environment (OE) for use with Peer Global File Service is v4.2.  Older versions of UnityOE are not officially supported.  PeerSync is not currently supported with Unity as a real-time source.
   
   
2. The Unity storage platform must be licensed for NAS/file operations and the Common Event Enabler (CEE) Framework.
   
   
3. Any Windows Server that will be interfacing with a Unity device through the Peer Agent must be on the same domain, same network segment, and same subnet as the Unity device.  This network must operate at speeds of at least 1 Gbit/sec. 
   
   
4. The minimum version of Windows required for Unity support with the Peer Agent is Windows Server 2012. 
   
   
5. No other products based on the Common Event Enabler (CEE) framework from Peer Software or any other vendor can be run on this Windows Server.  In addition, no other Peer Software products can be run on this server (such as the Peer Management Center).
   
   
6. Unisphere Management logon credentials are required to connect to the Unity device and port 443 must be open from the Peer Agent to the Unity device.
   
   
7. The service account for the Peer Agent must be a local administrator on the Windows Server that will host it.
   
   
8. The service account for the Peer Agent must be added as a local administrator on the Unity NAS Server.
   
   
9. DNS must be able to resolve the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the Windows Server that will host the Peer Agent.  Both forward and reverse lookups must successfully resolve.
   
   
10. No firewalls (software or hardware) should be enabled between the Windows Server that will host the Peer Agent, and the Unity device.

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