
Service the PA-7000 Series Firewall Hardware
Replace a PA-7000 Series Firewall LPC Drive
The Log Processing Card (LPC) contains four Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) used to house
one 2.5” SATA drive each. The first two drives (A1 and A2) are configured in a RAID 1 array and
the second two drives (B1 and B2) are configured in a second RAID 1 array. This configuration
provides redundancy so if a drive in a RAID 1 array fails there is no service interruption or loss of
log data.
When ordering replacement drives from Palo Alto Networks or your reseller, you will
receive the AMC and the drive as a single unit. Do not attempt to replace the drive in the
AMC with a third-party drive. Also, do not mix drive models within a RAID 1 array (for
example, the drive model must be the same for both drives in the A1/A2 RAID 1 array).
You can, however, mix drive models in different RAID 1 arrays on the same LPC. For
example, the drives in the A1/A2 array can both be model ST91000640NS and the drives
in the B1/B2 array can both be model ST1000NX0423.
STEP 1 |
Identify the failed drive and note the drive model by running the following operational
command and viewing the
status
and
model
fields:
admin@PA-7080>
show
system raid detail
For example, the following output shows that drive A2 failed and the drive model is
ST91000640NS
.
Disk Pair S7A Available
Status clean, degraded
Disk id A1 Present
model : ST91000640NS
size : 953869 MB
status : active sync
card serial : 002901000061
Disk id A2 Present
model : ST91000640NS
size : 953869 MB
status : failed
card serial : 002901000067
STEP 2 |
Put the provided ESD wrist strap on your wrist ensuring that the metal contact is touching
your skin. Then attach (snap) one end of the ground cable to the wrist strap and remove the
alligator clip from the banana clip on the other end of the ESD grounding cable. Plug the
banana clip end into one of the ESD ports located on the front of the chassis before handling
ESD sensitive hardware. For details on the ESD port location, see
STEP 3 |
Remove the failed drive from the RAID 1 array. In this example, run the following command
to remove drive A2 from the array:
admin@PA-7080>
request
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