Placing a 6130 Controller Offline

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To prepare for this maintenance activity, be aware of the following important conditions:

- Enable the reserve the Common Storage Module (CSM) or Common Expansion Module (CEM) function.

  1. Reserve the CSM/CEM for maintenance.

  2. Enter a description of the service action (placing a controller in Service Mode).

  3. Select the estimated amount of time of the service action from the pull-down.

  4. Select the Reserve button.

     a) Other users will be alerted that this service action is in progress when they login.

- Verify that the host has multi-path drivers installed. If multi-path drivers are NOT installed I/O errors will occur when the controller is placed Offline.

- Placing a controller Offline makes it unavailable for I/O operations and moves it's volumes to the other controller without affecting their access.

- Placing a controller Offline may significantly reduce performance.

- Before placing a controller Offline make sure the customer is aware of this service action.

  To Place a 6130 Controller Offline

  1. Place the controller Offline.

  2. Verify that the controller is now Offline.

     a) The controller card State should be "Enabled but Offline" and the Status will be "Error".

  3. Perform the maintenance activity.

  To Place a 6130 Controller Online

  1. Place the controller Online.

  2. Verify that the controller is now Online.

     a) The controller card State should be "Enabled" and the Status "OK".

  3. The volumes will need to be moved back to the original controller. Return to the Sun Web Console and use the Sun StorEdge 6130 Configuration Service to redistribute the volumes.

  4. Disable the reserve CSM/CEM function.

     a) Select the Release button.