Fc Card (Fibre Channel Card) Replacement Procedure - Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series Administration Manual

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CHAPTER 4 PCI Card Hot Maintenance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
4.6 Hot Replacement of PCI Express Cards
Post-processing of software using a PCI Express card
After replacing a PCI Express card, restart the software stopped before the PCI Express card replacement or
make the software operation applicable again, as needed.

4.6.3 FC card (Fibre Channel card) replacement procedure

The descriptions in this section assume that an FC card is being replaced.
Notes
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The FC card used for SAN boot does not support hot plugging.
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Although you can hot replace FC card used for dump device of sadump, collecting dump of memory fails
until reconfiguring HBA UEFI or extended BIOS with the partition inactive after replacing the FC card.
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This section does not cover configuration changes in peripherals (e.g., UNIT addition or removal for a
SAN disk device).
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This manual does not describe how to change the configuration of peripherals such as expanding and
removing the unit of SAN disk device.
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To prevent a device name mismatch due to the failure, addition, removal, or replacement of an FC card,
access the SAN disk unit by using the by-id name (/dev/disk/by-id/...) for the device name.
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If all the paths in a mounted disk become hidden when an FC card is hot replaced, unmount the disk.
Then, execute PCI hot plug.
FC card replacement procedure
The procedure for replacing only a faulty FC card without replacing other peripherals is as follows.
1. Make the necessary preparations.
Stop access to the faulty FC card, such as by stopping applications.
2. Confirm the slot number of the PCI Express slot.
See 'Confirming the slot number of a PCI Express slot' in
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3. Power off the PCI Express slot.
See 'Powering on and off PCI Express slots' in
4. Physically replace the target card by using MMB Maintenance Wizard. This step is performed by the field
engineer in charge of your system.
For details on the operation of replacement, see step 1 to 7 of 'Operation for Hot replacement of PCI
Express card by Maintenance Wizard' in
Reconfigure the peripheral according to its manual.
5.
For example, suppose that the storage device used is ETERNUS and that the host affinity function is
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