{"id":5796,"date":"2020-10-20T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T06:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2020-10-20T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T06:35:48","slug":"procedure-for-replacing-a-controller-equallogic-ps6100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/procedure-for-replacing-a-controller-equallogic-ps6100\/","title":{"rendered":"Procedure for replacing a controller in Dell Equallogic PS6100 Storage Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Scenario: The controller has a bad battery and we have  a replacement.&nbsp; We just need to know the process of sticking it in it.&nbsp;&nbsp;The controller with the bad battery is the secondary non-active controller right now.<\/p><p>Do I need to backup settings from the old controller or will the settings auto populate when I plug it in?&nbsp; Will I first have to update the firmware.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tekmart Enterprise Support Answer: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s not need to back up anything, all configuration info is stored on the RAIDset.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;All that&#8217;s required is to remove the network cables, remove the controller.&nbsp; Take the SD flash card from the old one and install it in the new CM.&nbsp; &nbsp;That&#8217;s what contains the array firmware.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Insert the new CM and re-cable it.&nbsp; &nbsp;Check the GUI to insure the controller is online and in-sync with the primary CM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Done !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Scenario: The controller has a bad battery and we have a replacement.&nbsp; We just need to know the process of sticking it in it.&nbsp;&nbsp;The controller with the bad battery is the secondary non-active controller right now. Do I need to backup settings from the old controller or will the settings auto populate when I plug it in?&nbsp; Will I first<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/procedure-for-replacing-a-controller-equallogic-ps6100\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,152,16,12,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-advise-and-opinion","category-how-do-i","category-how-tos-and-other-useful-tips-and-tricks","category-tekmart-enterprise-hardware-tips","category-timeless-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}