Hi Peter,
How's everything down Wollongong way?
Thanswer to your question is yes, bearing in mind that the F720 won't [officially] support as much storage as an F740. They both run alphas so you don't even need to reload OnTap. You must halt the filer properly to make sure NVRAM is flushed. Then power down, swap the heads and boot it up.
To go to in Intel based filer head (800 series) you would need to run through the regular OnTap upgrade procedure, including the "download" console instruction, with an Intel version of OnTap first. Then simply halt, power down and swap the heads just as you would normally.
regards,
Alan.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter D. Gray [mailto:pdg@uow.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 9:14 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: swapping heads
Does anybody know if it safe to simply swap heads between a F720 and a F740 filer?
Since the OS and configuration is on the disks I assume this will work ok as long as the OS and/or configuration is not specific to either of these 2 models?
Regards, pdg
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Just one point regarding hardware.
Verify that the Network Cards in the F740 are in the same slots as the network cards on the F720. Unless you change the default config Netapp uses the hostname-e{slot}{a,b,c,d} when configuring interfaces.
Make any changes to your config files to reflect any slot changes prior to shutting down.
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Alan McLachlan Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:18 PM To: Peter D. Gray; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: swapping heads
Hi Peter,
How's everything down Wollongong way?
Thanswer to your question is yes, bearing in mind that the F720 won't [officially] support as much storage as an F740. They both run alphas so you don't even need to reload OnTap. You must halt the filer properly to make sure NVRAM is flushed. Then power down, swap the heads and boot it up.
To go to in Intel based filer head (800 series) you would need to run through the regular OnTap upgrade procedure, including the "download" console instruction, with an Intel version of OnTap first. Then simply halt, power down and swap the heads just as you would normally.
regards,
Alan.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter D. Gray [mailto:pdg@uow.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 9:14 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: swapping heads
Does anybody know if it safe to simply swap heads between a F720 and a F740 filer?
Since the OS and configuration is on the disks I assume this will work ok as long as the OS and/or configuration is not specific to either of these 2 models?
Regards, pdg
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