We swapped a F720 with an F840. Life was a bit easier since we had a seperate volume just for the Ontap on the 720. After transfering the neccessary cards from the 720 to the 840 we built a new volume on the 840 with the new required OS ( we had enough spare disks, and an extra shelf). We then connected the shelves from the 720 to the 840 (without the disks that had the old OS on the 720). We then did a disk firmware upgrade. We had to reboot most of the hosts - the NFS hung I think due to the change in the MAC address of the new Giga card we added. I think that sums it up. It took us about 60 minutes.
Matt Phelps wrote:
We just got our new F840 (it has an UGLY *gold* faceplate by the way). It will be replacing an F740 straight away. My questions have to do with swapping an Intel NetApp for an Alpha NetApp while keeping the same disks. Has anyone done this yet? Aren't the Ontap system files different binaries?
What should the sequence of events be? Our plan (so far) is this:
- Shut down the 740
- Boot from floppy of old OS (5.3.6R1)
- run a wafl_check (we want to do this anyway)
- still using the 740, upgrade using the 537R1_sysfiles_i.tar file (I'm presuming these Intel binaries won't work on an Alpha NetApp)
- on the 740 console, run the "download" command (will this work now?)
- disconnect the 740, pulling it's Gigabit ethernet card
- Put the gigabit card in the 840, connect it up
- Turn it on and it will work (right?)!!
Any thoughts, comments, will be appreciated.
-- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu, http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~mphelps