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Installing and Replacing Components Other than Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Accelerated Data Path
Caution
The operating system is disabled if all of the following occurs:
• Both hard-disk drive slots are occupied.
• The appliance is turned on.
• RAID-1 is not enabled.
• You press the hot swap button on the source hard-disk drive.
Before You Begin
To upgrade or replace a Check Point IP2450 appliance hard-disk drive, you need:
Physical access to the appliance
Check Point hard-disk drive kit and accompanying documentation
Phillips-head screwdriver
Removing and Replacing a Hard-Disk Drive
If you have RAID-1 configured on your Check Point IP2450 appliance, you can remove a failed
hard-disk drive without shutting down the appliance.
You must replace the hard-disk drive with a drive that has a capacity equal to or larger than the
drive you are replacing.
Back up your hard-disk drive files to a remote system on a regular basis. For backup and restore
procedures, see the documentation for Check Point Network Voyager or Check Point Horizon
Manager and the online help for both products.
To replace a hard-disk drive by using the hot-swap feature
Caution
For any active or RAID-1 synchronized hard-disk drive, you must use the hot swap
button, shown in Figure 4, before you remove or replace a hard-disk drive without
shutting the appliance down. If you replace or remove drives with the IP2450 shut off,
the RAID firmware will lose track of RAID volume data.
If the two hard-disk drives are fully synchronized, then either drive can be removed
using this procedure. If the two hard-disk drives are not fully synchronized, then only
the slave drive can be removed using this procedure.
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Check Point IP2450 Security Platform Installation Guide
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