Before you receive Transfer Appliance at your site, you must first prepare your facility and ensure your environment meets specific requirements.
Review and complete the tasks in this checklist to prepare for receiving and using Transfer Appliance.
Ensure that your facility meets Transfer Appliance power and cooling specifications.
If you plan to use a workstation to capture your data, make sure that your workstation is running either a Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system.
Ensure that your environment supports Google Chrome browser.
Identify the servers and directories or folders that contain the data you want to capture.
Confirm that you have the correct permissions to access the data you want to capture.
Review all of the files in the directories you want to capture to ensure they meet Transfer Appliance criteria.
Prepare the network, which includes confirming that your environment meets Transfer Appliance firewall port requirements.
Confirm that your facility has adequate space to store and move Transfer Appliance crate and/or ruggedized case. See Preparing to receive Transfer Appliance and Specifications.
What's next
Once you have reviewed this checklist, consolidate your data.