Chapter 2. Accesser And Slicestor Appliance Disk Replacement; Replacing An Accesser Appliance Operating System Disk With Sw Raid; Replacing An Accesser Appliance Operating System Disk - IBM Cloud Object Storage System Hardware Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2. Accesser and Slicestor appliance disk replacement

Replacing an Accesser appliance operating system disk with SW Raid

About this task
Upon disk failure, obtain a replacement disk by contacting IBM Customer Support.
Procedure
1. For this procedure, you do not need to turn the appliance off.
2. For an SW RAID, a single failed-drive no longer requires a full re-install of the OS. The bad drive can
now be swapped out, and then the system automatically recovers the raid array while syncing up the
new drive.
3. Replace disk.

Replacing an Accesser appliance operating system disk

About this task
Upon disk failure, obtain a replacement disk by contacting IBM Customer Support.
Procedure
1. Turn off the appliance.
2. Replace disk.
3. Insert USB installation media and power on the appliance.
4. Press the appropriate function key during the startup to enter the boot select menu.
5. Reconfigure the system network parameters - channel port, IP, gateway, netmask; manager IP and
system parameters. See the IBM Appliance Configuration Guide for the procedure to configure an
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Accesser Appliance.
6. Select the USB media from which to boot, when the boot select menu appears. Wait for the
installation screen to appear.
7. Follow the next prompts and select Automated > OS drive install when presented.
8. Wait for installation to complete and the appliance to reboot, then remove the USB media.
9. Reconfigure the system network parameters: channel port, IP, gateway, netmask, Manager IP, and
system parameters. See IBM Appliance Configuration Guide for the procedure to configure an Accesser
appliance.
10. Make a note of its fingerprint after the configuration for a device is complete. Run system
fingerprint to verify this information when approving devices in the Manager.
11. Consult the Appliance Configuration Guide for further instructions, if the disk is part of a High
Availability configuration.
The Accesser appliance is now ready for use.
Note: Statistics data and Access logs are retained after an OS disk replacement if Management Vault
was enabled on the Manager. Refer to "Management vaults" in IBM Manager Administration Guide.
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