NEC Express5800/340Hb-R N8800-047F, User Manual

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Windows Setup and Operation 3-41
3.
Stop the operation of a PCI module using the ft server utility.
Select [Start] - [All Programs] - [NEC ESMPRO Agent] - [ft server utility] to start the
ft server utility.
Then, from the ft server utility, select [PCI Module] then the primary PCI module from
the [FTSever] tree on the left pane, and click [Down] of [Bring Up/Bring Down]. When
you stop the operation of the primary PCI module, a failover occurs and the secondary
PCI module becomes the primary module.
The following events or changes occur when stopping the primary PCI module and the
module fails over:
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The screen temporarily blacks out and then displayed again.
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The following message will appear from the taskbar:
Windows - FT Orphaning: A disk that is part of a fault-tolerant volume can no
longer be accessed.
* The message denotes that the mirror volumes of the hard disk stored in the
disconnected PCI module are released.
* The message will not appear if disks are duplicated by the RDR function.
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Indications of PCI modules’ status LEDs change as follows:
[Indications of status LEDs]
LED Secondary* Primary*
1 BMC status LED Green Green
2
PCI module status LED1 Red -
3
PCI module status LED2 - Amber
4 DISK ACCESS LED - Amber
DISK LED - Amber
* The primary and secondary modules after failover
4.
Restart the PCI module.
From the ft server utility, click [Up] of [Bring Up/Bring Down] to the PCI module
which was stopped in the step 3, and the PCI module will be started. Once the PCI
module is started, PCI module diagnosis, mirror volume duplication and PCI module
duplication are performed.