Nortel CallPilot 1001rp, Installation And Configuration Manual

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Performing RAID maintenance Standard 1.0
194 CallPilot
Splitting AcceleRAID352 RAID drives and
upgrading software
Introduction
Use this procedure on a CallPilot server that is configured with an
AcceleRAID 352 controller. This procedure breaks the mirroring of the hard
drives before an upgrade so that if the upgrade fails, you can quickly return
the server to the state it was in before you started the upgrade.
There are three stages to this procedure:
1. Preparing the CallPilot server for the upgrade
2. Performing the CallPilot server software upgrade
3. Resynchronizing the CallPilot server hard drives
Requirements
As a precaution, ensure that you have a full system tape backup
available.
You need a blank 3.5 inch, 1.44 Mbytes formatted floppy disk to use to
back up the RAID configuration.
The server must have a standard hard drive configuration as documented
in “RAID system pack locations and identifications” on page 196.
Tips
Perform a RAID status check and consistency check (see “To check the
status of the RAID system” on page 198, and “To check the consistency
ATTENTION
The screen captures are provided for illustration
purposes only. Based on the configuration of your
server, the screens may not be identical.