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Base System Controller Upgrade  

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StorNext QD7000

 

 

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Summary of Contents for StorNext QD7000

Page 1: ...Base System Controller Upgrade Guide StorNext QD7000 Firmware 8 30 xx xx 6 68577 01 Rev A...

Page 2: ...able violation of the law TRADEMARK STATEMENT Artico Be Certain and the Q brackets design DLT DXi DXi Accent DXi V1000 DXi V2000 DXi V4000 DXiV Series FlexTier Lattus the Q logo the Q Quantum logo Q C...

Page 3: ...er only Refer to the NetApp to Quantum Naming Decoder section for additional information This section provides the following information Audience Prerequisites NetApp to Quantum Naming Decoder Product...

Page 4: ...t Quantum storage naming conventions Table 1 Product Nomenclature E Series NetApp Product Quantum Storage Description Controller Drive Tray Base System Quantum uses Base System when referring to a dri...

Page 5: ...60 DE6600 4U drive enclosure with E5400 RAID controllers Quantum StorNext QD6000 E5424 DE5600 24 drive 2U drive enclosure Code Name Camden with E5400 RAID controllers Quantum StorNext QS2400 E5412 DE1...

Page 6: ...assumes all risk in this aspect This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and regulatory requirements Be aware that improper use may result in bodily injury damage to the equipment o...

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Page 9: ...E Series and EF Series Systems Controller Upgrade Guide August 2016 215 11211_A0 doccomments netapp com...

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Page 11: ...oller drive tray 13 Installing new controller canisters in the controller drive tray 20 Powering on the storage array 22 Remounting volumes after changing the vendor from LSI to NETAPP 27 Remounting v...

Page 12: ...d two port iSCSI HIC by installing new E5600 or EF560 controllers that have four port HICs You can then apply a feature pack in SANtricity Storage Manager to configure the HICs to operate with two iSC...

Page 13: ...ou should disable any premium features used on your storage array that are not supported on the new controllers If you change your controllers from 5x00 models to 2x00 models your new storage array co...

Page 14: ...Upgrades are not supported From E5x00 Battery Order a new battery Vendor ID Additional steps are required when upgrading from E5500 or E5600 to E2600 or when upgrading from E5400 to E2700 Feature Sup...

Page 15: ...secure volumes the new controller needs the correct security key to manage those volumes After you replace the controller and restore power to the controller drive tray you can use SANtricity Storage...

Page 16: ...HIC Cable Data Rate and Protocol Number of Connectors Connector Type Length 12 Gb s SAS 4 MiniSAS HD passive copper 1 5m MiniSAS HD active copper 8 15m MiniSAS HD optical 5 100m Fan out cable type 2 p...

Page 17: ...P 4 Copper cables with RJ 45 connectors for iSCSI connections require an SFP adapter Supported cables for E2700 controller drive trays HIC Cable Data Rate and Protocol Number of Connectors Connector T...

Page 18: ...Cat6a passive copper 2 100m 1 Gb s iSCSI 4 SFP 1 OM2 optical 2 3 5 10 25m SFP 1 OM3 optical 50 150m Twin Ax passive copper 2 7m RJ 452 passive copper 2 70m 2 SFP 1 OM2 optical 2 3 5 10 25m SFP 1 OM3...

Page 19: ...orm the following steps to record the serial number for your storage array a In the EMW tree view double click your storage array The AMW opens b In the Summary tab of the AMW click the View Storage A...

Page 20: ...g relationship stop all host I O operations on the secondary storage array 7 Wait for five minutes to allow any data in cache memory to be flushed to disk 8 From the title bar of the Array Management...

Page 21: ...o reconnect some cables after you replace the controller canister 3 Disconnect all of the interface and Ethernet cables from the old controller canister If fiber optic cables are present you can use t...

Page 22: ...oving a controller canister from the E2612 or the E2624 controller drive tray 1 Release Handles 2 Controller Canisters Removing a controller canister from the E2712 or the E2724 controller drive tray...

Page 23: ...ase Handles 2 Controller Canisters Removing a controller canister from the E2660 controller drive tray 1 Release Handles 2 Controller Canisters Removing controller canisters from a controller drive tr...

Page 24: ...Removing a controller canister from the E2760 controller drive tray 1 Release Handles 2 Controller Canisters 16...

Page 25: ...Removing a controller canister from the E5400 EF540 E5500 or EF550 controller drive tray 51011 02 1 Release Handles 2 Controller Canisters Removing controller canisters from a controller drive tray 17...

Page 26: ...down on both of the top cover latch buttons on the old controller canister and slide the top cover to the rear of the canister 9 Perform one of the following options depending on your model of contro...

Page 27: ...11 For a duplex controller drive tray repeat step 2 on page 13 through step 10 on page 18 for the second controller canister Removing controller canisters from a controller drive tray 19...

Page 28: ...on the wall of the new canister 6 Keeping the locking handle at a 45 degree angle align the connectors at the bottom of the battery with the connectors on the canister 7 Push the battery down until y...

Page 29: ...might be able to reuse SFP transceiver or QSFP transceivers that you removed from your old controller canister See Cabling considerations for controller drive tray hardware upgrades on page 8 for det...

Page 30: ...ool that is not secured by Drive Security Secured drives are assigned drives that are a part of a secured volume group or Disk Pool using Drive Security b Import the security key that you saved in Pre...

Page 31: ...Host Link 3 Service Action Required LED Amber 7 Host Link 4 Service Action Required LED Amber Controller LEDs and seven segment display on the E5400 controller drive tray 1 Controller Service Action...

Page 32: ...e Action Required LED Amber 3 Seven Segment Display 8 Perform these steps if any of the controller drive tray s Service Action Required LEDs are on or if the Controller Service Action Required LED is...

Page 33: ...teps to associate the new host ports with your hosts a In the Array Management Window select the Host Mappings tab b From the Storage Array tree on the left of the window select the host to associate...

Page 34: ...ext box substituting the serial number of your controller drive tray for serial number Please create alert against Serial Number serial number The alert name should be E Series Upgrade The alert text...

Page 35: ...scan for hardware and reboot 3 Right click in the Device Manager and select Scan for Hardware Changes 4 Reboot the host Steps for AIX hosts After you replace the controllers you might observer that ho...

Page 36: ...eps 1 Perform a rescan on the each host 2 Halt all host I O operations to this subsystem 3 To reclaim the volumes under NetApp rule perform the following steps a From the command line run the esxcli s...

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Page 38: ...DP RAID TEC SANtricity SecureShare Simplicity Simulate ONTAP Snap Creator SnapCenter SnapCopy SnapDrive SnapIntegrator SnapLock SnapManager SnapMirror SnapMover SnapProtect SnapRestore Snapshot SnapVa...

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