depends on your comfort level, you can get a new box with a couple of ACLX devices, zone it to your managements server and configure away (TDATs, TDEVs ..everything except disk group)
In the past when a brand new DMX boxes was delivered by EMC, we requested EMC engneers to configure only VCMDB device and map it on all host ports of the box. This way we could connect (zone) our first management system to the box, discover VCMDB lun at the OS level, initialize it using symcli, create some gatekeepers, map and mask them to the management system and then proceed with rest of the box configuration for other hosts.  Now with new V-MAX what do we do??  What do we ask EMC to configure as "minimum" configuration??  Thanks.
How do I configure first system to use brand new VMAX