Most installations use two Appliances. One onQ Appliance is deployed to provide high availability (HA) protection while the other is deployed in a more remote location to provide disaster recovery (DR) protection.

The two onQ Appliances are architecturally identical, although they can have different physical resources available, such as processors and memory. If your installation uses two onQ Appliances, you’ll make two passes through some of the installation steps—once for the HA and once for the DR Appliance. Also, during installation, you will assign the onQ Appliance its role as the HA or the DR Appliance.

Before you can use onQ you need to install the onQ Appliances on your network and enroll your Protected Nodes (PNs). You make these initial settings and manage the ongoing operations of the onQ Appliance using the onQ Portal.

Some settings, such as network parameters, are usually pre-configured at the factory and you rarely, if ever, need to change them.

Setting up the onQ Appliances requires a special user, VARAdmin, with privileges to perform the following tasks. VARAdmin is not needed for day-to-day administration and operation.

You will need to log on as VARAdmin in order to configure your Appliances. After you log on, you should change this password. Contact Quorum Support for the default password.