[cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading.......disk drives

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

you want the official answer or what everyone does? 

I'm not saying we do it, but I believe we "tested" out OEM drives in Cisco badged servers and everything worked fine. During testing. ;) 

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From: "Steve Miller" <MillerS at DicksteinShapiro.COM> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:57:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading.......disk drives 


So if I've got a Cisco-branded HP DL380G4 box, I can't do anything for a spare disk other than buy one from Cisco??? 


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From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:55 AM 
To: Miller, Steve 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading.......disk drives 



your IBM/HP rep can help you with that if you have an HP/IBM box. otherwise if you have a Cisco badged box you can buy a Cisco spare drive (at four times the cost, but it's blue) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Miller" <MillerS at DicksteinShapiro.COM> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:50:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading.......disk drives 


How do you find out specs about the hard drives in order to make sure the RPM (etc) matches the one that you put in there after removing the mirrored drive? 


Steve Miller 
Telecom Engineer 
Dickstein Shapiro LLP 
1825 Eye Street NW | Washington, DC 20006 
Tel (202) 420-3370| Fax (202) 330-5607 
MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com 



From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:01 AM 
To: Miller, Steve 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading from Unity 4.2.1 to Unity 7.0(2) ??? 



No one will give you official support, but it's something that many people do. Many people suggest against it because of mismatched BIOS upgrades, but that's easily fixed with manufacturer utilities. (I think). 

My only suggestion is that if you have a spare drive, slap it in after you pull the second. Completing an installation with the drive arrays complete is a better option. 


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Miller" <MillerS at DicksteinShapiro.COM> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:56:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [cisco-voip] Remove Mirrored Disk Before Upgrading from Unity 4.2.1 to Unity 7.0(2) ??? 


One of my managers would like to remove the second disk before the upgrade so that if we have any major issues (total system crash, etc), we can just replace the main disk with the mirrored disk that we removed and go back to status quo. Is this a good idea? 


Steve Miller 
Telecom Engineer 
Dickstein Shapiro LLP 
1825 Eye Street NW | Washington, DC 20006 
Tel (202) 420-3370| Fax (202) 330-5607 
MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com 


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