Reimaging A Multiservices Platform Series Device That Is Running Vsm - Cisco CPS-MSP-1RU-K9 User Manual

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Appendix B

Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure

Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is

Running VSM

Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is Running VSM involves reconfiguring RAID

to make replacement hard drives visible to the server and resetting the server to the factory defaults.

Before reimaging a system, replace all failed hard drives.

This procedure is intended to recover a server from a catastrophic failure. Before you perform these

Caution

steps, see

To reimage a server, perform the following steps:

Procedure

After replacing failed drives as described in the

Step 1

the server and, as soon as the server starts booting, press Ctrl-M to access the RAID configuration tool.

Choose Configure and press Enter.

Step 2

Choose New Configuration and press Enter.

Step 3

Choose Yes and press Enter to display the ports and drives.

Step 4

Choose Port 0 and press Spacebar to convert to ONLIN A00-00.

Step 5

Press F10 to configure.

Step 6

Press Spacebar to choose SPAN-1.

Step 7

Press F10 to continue.

Step 8

Step 9

Specify the following settings:

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Choose Accept and press Enter to create VD0.

Step 10

Choose Accept and press Enter to create VD1.

Step 11

Press Esc to leave configuration mode and Yes to save the configuration.

Step 12

Press Esc again.

Step 13

For each additional drive:

Step 14

Step 15

Press Esc to return to the Management menu.

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Table B-1

to make sure that this procedure is appropriate for your situation.

RAID = 0

Size = 12288

Select the next port and press Spacebar to change to ONLIN A0N-00, where N is the next drive.

Press F10 to configure.

Press Spacebar to choose SPAN-1.

Press F10 to continue.

Specify RAID = 0.

Choose Accept and press Enter.

Press Esc to leave configuration mode and Yes to save the configuration.

Press Esc again.