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

Wed Feb 25 11:26:31 EST 2009

our old MCS 7835's I used HP drives in.  bought a bunch of 15k RPM ones and
even when they were mismatched with the Cisco 10k RPM ones, they worked just
fine. (whole lot cheaper too)

Scott

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

>  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. ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Miller" <MillerS at DicksteinShapiro.COM>
> To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:57:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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> 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???
>
>
> *Steve Miller*
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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>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> 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
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> MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com
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>
>  ------------------------------
> *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.
>
>
> ---
> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Miller" <MillerS at DicksteinShapiro.COM>
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> 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*
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> Dickstein Shapiro LLP
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