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Can someone from Netapp give me the run down on upgrading FC-AL shelves for clustering. I've heard conflicting information.
We have three FC-AL FC7 shelves that only have a single LRC card in them. I know that for clustering, the shelves will need an additional LRC card (for the second FC-AL loop).
It is not clear to me what is involved in adding the LRC card. I don't see this documented in the cluster conversion guide nor in the shelf hardware guide. I have heard that this is a field procedure that Netapp needs to perform and that after it is done, the shelves need to be calibrated. I heard the down time for all of this is supposed to be several hours.
The downtime is not a problem as we plan to move the disks from these shelves into a new set of FC7 shelves we are getting that will have two LRCs from the outset. I sent a message to toasters about this a few weeks ago.
I'd like to get an idea of exactly what is involved.
Thanks.
j. -- Jay Soffian jay@cimedia.com UNIX Systems Administrator 404.572.1941 Cox Interactive Media