A customer has scheduled the installation of a FlashArray//X70R4.

The puresetup initialization script includes a validation phase where it attempts to ping and resolve the addresses provided for DNS, NTP, and SMTP. If the network is down or these services are unreachable, the script will display error messages indicating that validation failed.

However, these failures aresoft warnings, not hard blocks. The installation logic allows the Implementation Engineer to proceed with the configuration (often by acknowledging the warnings or using a specific flag to bypass checks). The array will successfully initialize, boot into Purity, and begin serving data.

The "Home" features (Phone Home, Remote Assist) and time synchronization will obviously not function until network connectivity is restored. The engineer must document this state and plan a follow-up task (or instruct the customer) to verify these services once the network outage is resolved. The array doesnotrequire reinitialization; it simply needs the network path to become active for the already-configured settings to start working.

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