Monitoring And Managing A Cisco Flexflash Card; Synchronizing Raid After Installing A Second Cisco Flexflash Drive; Cisco Flexflash Card Replacement Procedure - Cisco UCS C260 Installation And Service Manual

Chapter 3 Maintaining the Server

Monitoring and Managing a Cisco FlexFlash Card

You can monitor and manage your installed Cisco FlexFlash cards by using the CIMC GUI interface or
the CLI interface. See the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Server Configuration Guide or the Cisco
UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Server CLI Configuration Guide in the documentation roadmap linked
below.
The links to these documents are in the C-Series documentation roadmap:
http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputing/c-series-doc

Synchronizing RAID After Installing a Second Cisco FlexFlash Drive

After you install or replace a second Cisco FlexFlash drive, you must synchronize the RAID partition
by using the Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (SCU).
The SCU provides an option to synchronize the Hypervisor VD, configured as a RAID-1 disk. This
feature is available only when both Cisco FlexFlash drive slots are populated.
When one member slot of the SD card is corrupt, use this option to synchronize the hypervisor data
across two members of the RAID-1 virtual disk. You can initiate this synchronization only if two cards
are detected and the RAID-1 group is determined as unhealthy (one member is corrupt).
Click the Hypervisor Sync icon on the toolbar of the SCU interface.
Step 1
A dialog prompts you to confirm that you want to synchronize the Hypervisor RAID.
Click Yes.
Step 2
A dialog is displayed when the synchronization is complete.
Click OK.
Step 3
After you click OK, the Hypervisor Sync icon on the toolbar is greyed out.
For more information about the utility, see the

Cisco FlexFlash Card Replacement Procedure

To install or replace a Cisco FlexFlash card, follow these steps:
Remove the SD card that you are replacing. See
Step 1
a.
b.
Caution If you cannot safely view and access the component, remove the server from the rack.
c.
d.
e.
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Power off the server as described in the
page 3-7.
Slide the server out the front of the rack far enough so that you can remove the top cover. You might
have to detach cables from the rear panel to provide clearance.
Remove the top cover as described in
page 3-8.
Locate the Cisco FlexFlash card that you are replacing on the I/O riser card. See
Push down on the top of the Cisco FlexFlash card, then release it to allow it to spring up in the
socket.
Installing or Replacing Server Components
Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility User
Figure 3-23:
"Shutting Down and Powering Off the Server" section on
"Removing and Replacing the Server Top Cover" section on
Cisco UCS C260 Server Installation and Service Guide
Guide.
Figure 3-23.
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