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Remounting volumes after changing the vendor
from LSI to NETAPP
If your controller upgrade results in changing the vendor ID from LSI to NETAPP, you must take
steps on each Windows, VMware or AIX host that uses volumes from the updated storage array.
Refer to the task for the corresponding operating system on each host.
Remounting volumes on a Windows host
These steps enable attached hosts can perform I/O operations with volumes on the upgraded storage
array.
Steps
1. In the Device Manager, select Show Hidden Devices.
2. For each NETAPP SCSI Disk Device listed in the Device Manager, right-click on the entry, and
select Uninstall.
If Windows displays a dialog with a message indicating that you should reboot the host, finish
uninstalling all of the volumes before you 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 host shows the new volumes on the storage
array, but also shows the original volumes as failed.
About this task
If failed volumes appear, perform the following steps.
Step
1. From the command line, run the
cfgmgr
command.
Remounting volumes on a VMware host
Address problems that might appear on VMware hosts after the controller upgrade.
About this task
After you replace the controllers, you might observe the following conditions:
•
VMware shows new paths for the volumes on the storage array, but also shows the original paths
as dead paths.
•
The hosts still list the volumes on the storage array as having LSI vendor IDs. This might occur
when the volumes were claimed by the LSI rule at the start and so continue to use the same LSI
rule when the volumes come back on line.
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