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

Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is Running Cisco IPICS

Press Esc to exit and Yes to confirm.
Step 16
Insert the recovery disc for your release of VSM and press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot.
Step 17
At the boot prompt, enter factory and press Enter.
Step 18
The operating system and VSM software installs. This process takes approximately 20 minutes. Progress
messages provide information about the installation. When the process completes, the disk ejects, and a
login screen appears.
Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is
Running Cisco IPICS
Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is running Cisco IPICS involves reconfiguring
RAID to make replacement hard drives visible to a 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
a.
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Table B-1 or Table B-2
RAID = 0
Size = 12288
Select the next port and press Spacebar to change to ONLIN A0N-00, where N is the next drive.
to make sure that this procedure is appropriate for your situation.
"Replacing a Hard Drive" section on page
Appendix B Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure
B-3, reboot
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