I've been working at our ORC Datacenter (Off-Site Records Center)installing 2 NetApp filers that I moved from our downtown DC. WOW...it was all going to so well until i booted up the new FAS3050 filers to replace the older 960 and 980 heads.
1st the 3050's complained about not seeing any disks it could own. Fixed that by booting maint mode and assigning them to the new 3050's.
2nd the 3050's complained that the disks had a mismatched OnTap version on them. 7.3.2 on the disks and the 3050's had 7.2.# on them.
3rd a netboot of the 3050's blew up every time. The nic would just go offline and hence would kill the netboot. I tried a netboot from downtown, from hou and directly connected to my laptop. None of which worked!
4th decided to just reuse the 900's. the first 960 boots up and and complains it cant grab ownership of the disks (because the 3050 grabbed them before). so now i have to re-rack the 3050 plug in the disk and remove_ownership.
5th the network ports locations weren't completely communicated correctly so they were on the correct VLAN's
24 hours later (930AM today) the 2 replication filers are back online in the ORC datacenter.
This freed up 8Kw of power in the downtown DC, so the DC manager is happy again.
(sorry for the bad grammar and capitalization)
4 years ago
So when will we get to see a picture of the Yak sweater?
ReplyDeleteworking on getting it uploaded IT'S HUGE!!! trying to climb out from under a filer outage from this weekend!
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