Replacing A Slicestor Appliance Operating System Disk With Sw Raid; Replacing A Slicestor Appliance Operating System Disk - IBM Cloud Object Storage System Hardware Maintenance Manual

Replacing a Slicestor appliance operating system disk with SW Raid

About this task
Upon disk failure on a Slicestor appliance, 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 a Slicestor appliance operating system disk

About this task
Upon disk failure on a Slicestor appliance, obtain a replacement disk by contacting IBM Customer
Support.
Procedure
1. Turn off the appliance.
2. Replace the operating system disk (see table for drive locations).
Table 1. Operating system drive locations
Appliance
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Slicestor 2210
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Slicestor 1440
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Slicestor 1440v2
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Slicestor 2440
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Slicestor 2440v2
3. Insert USB installation media.
4. Turn on the appliance and press the F11 key during the startup to enter the boot select menu.
5. Select the USB media to boot from, when the boot select menu appears.
6. Follow the next prompts and select Automated > OS drive install when presented.
7. Press the Enter key.
8. Wait for installation to complete and the appliance to reboot.
9. Remove the USB installation media after the reboot completes and the BIOS splash screen appears.
10. Reconfigure the network parameters: channel port, IP, gateway, netmask, manager IP, and system
parameters. See the IBM Appliance Configuration Guide for the procedure to configure a Slicestor
Device.
11. After the configuration for a device is complete, make a note of its fingerprint. Run system
fingerprint to verify this information when approving devices in the Manager.
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The Slicestor Appliance is ready to use.
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Hardware Maintenance Guide
Operating system drive (bay 0) is internal to the box. Remove the lid, unplug the
drive, unscrew the mounting bracket, and unscrew the drive from the mounting
bracket.
Rear-mounted hot swap drive, top slot.
Rear-mounted hot swap drive, top slot.
Rear-mounted hot swap drive, top slot.
Rear-mounted hot swap drive, top slot.
Operating system drive location
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