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Appendix B Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure
Replacing a Hard Drive
Replacing a Hard Drive
To replace a hard drive Multiservices Platform Series device, perform the following steps. In a server
with RAID-1 or with RAID-5 and one failed drive, you can hot swap the failed drive. Hot swapping
means that you replace a hard drive while the server is running.
Use only Cisco approved hard drives in a Multiservices Platform Series device.
Procedure
Step 1
Take these actions to remove the hard drive from the chassis:
a.
Press the release catch on the drive bay.
The drive bay handle extends.
b.
Use the drive bay handle to pull the drive out of the chassis.
Step 2
To remove a hard drive from a hard drive bay, see
and take the actions that follow.
Table B-2
Hard Drive Recovery for Cisco Physical Security Products on a Multiservices Platform Series 2_RU
Model
Physical
Security
Application
Hard Drive
Configuration
Notes
Recovering
Cisco VSM
6 or 12 hard
drives
(RAID-6)
•
Provides an operating system and a
single media repository striped across all
drives
•
Fault tolerant; if one or two drives fail,
the system functions in degraded mode
•
Drive hot-swapping is supported if one
or two drives fail
•
If a third drive fails before the first and
second drives are replaced and the RAID
set rebuilds, data is lost and the system
fails
If one or two drives fail, replace the failed
drive as described in the
.
If three or more drives fail, replace each
failed drive as described in the
Hard Drive” section on page B-3
reimage the system as described in the
“Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series
Device that is Running VSM” section on
page B-5
.
Cisco IPICS
6 hard drives
(RAID-5)
•
Fault tolerant; if a single drive fails, the
system functions in degraded mode
•
Drive hot-swapping is supported if a
single drive fails
•
If an additional drive fails before the first
drive is replaced and the RAID set
rebuilds, data is lost and the system fails
If one drive fails, replace the failed drive as
described in the
.
If multiple drives fail, replace each failed
drive as described in the
. Then, reimage
the system as described in the
Multiservices Platform Series Device that is
Running Cisco IPICS, page B-6