[cisco-voip] Can you use the same instructions

[Candace Holman]

Be extremely careful about following the instructions in the upgrade 
documents, whether you are for or against them.  I can testify from 
experience and an extremely long weekend of continued failures, that not 
all of them correspond with what HP recommends.  HP recommends that you 
never do an upgrade without all the drives in place.

Would love to hear from an expert on this matter.

Candace

Mike Armstrong wrote:

>I think the issue is not whether or not you can hot-swap a drive and have 
>the array continue to function, but what the state of the swapped-out drive 
>is.  Using the "pull a drive" backup procedure recommended in CCM 
>maintenance docs, you want the pulled drive to be in a stable state 
>representing the system prior to maintenance, so you can fall back if need 
>be.  Pulling the drive while it's "hot" offers no assurance of that.
>
>Unity docs explicitly forbid pulling a drive in this fashion, but I've never 
>understood why, and have so-far-successfully ignored the warnings.
>
>Finally, I never rebuild the array until my maintenance is complete -- the 
>maintenance window is shortened considerably, since there's no delay to 
>rebuild, and the maintenance itself is noticeably faster.
>
>Mike Armstrong
>UF/IFAS CREC
>Lake Alfred, FL
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>>Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:47:06 -0400
>>From: "Simon, Bill" <BillS at tns.its.psu.edu>
>>Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Can you use the same instructions
>>To: "'Lelio Fulgenzi '" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>,
>>"'cisco-voip at puck.nether.net '" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
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>>The RAID controllers are hot-plug ... you can pull a drive while the 
>>machine
>>is up and replace it with another one and it will start mirroring from the
>>live, working drive.
>>
>>We have always done this using the "top" drive on HP servers (drive 1 
>>versus
>>drive 0) so I am not sure if this is the only drive that can be hot 
>>swapped
>>or if you can do so with either drive.  I think it used to be only this 
>>one,
>>but maybe the RAID controllers allow either way now.
>>
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