AMCC 720-0138-00 manual Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another

Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another

Launch the Macintosh Disk Utility, select the unit, and click the Unmount button the toolbar, or select the icon for the unit on the desktop and drag it to the trash.

This step is very important. If a unit is not unmounted and you remove it, it is the equivalent of physically yanking a hard drive out from under the operating system. You could lose data, the system could hang, or the controller could reset.

3In 3DM, choose Management > Maintenance.

4In the Unit Maintenance table on the Maintenance page, select the unit you want to remove and click Remove Unit.

5When a message asks you to confirm, click OK.

The unit number and information is removed from the Maintenance page in 3DM.

The operating system is notified that the unit was removed.

You can now physically remove the drives and move them to another controller.

If you change your mind and want to reuse the drives and unit on the current controller, click Rescan Controller.

Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another

After you have configured a unit on a 3ware 9590SE controller, you can move it to a different 3ware 9590SE controller, and retain the configuration on the new controller. This is referred to as “array roaming.”

When connecting the unit to the new controller, you do not have to physically connect the drives to the same ports to which they were connected on the previous controller. The firmware will still recognize the unit. This feature is referred to as “disk roaming.”

3DM includes two features that help you move a unit without powering down the system, allowing you to hot-swap the unit. The Remove Unit feature lets you prepare a unit to be disconnected from the controller, and the Rescan feature checks the controller for drives that are now connected, and updates the 3DM screens with current information. For details, see “Removing a Unit” on page 56 and “Rescanning the Controller” on page 60.

Note: Moving a unit to another controller while the unit is in the migration state is supported with one restriction. If the unit was in the middle of the migration process and the controller was shutdown uncleanly, the unit cannot be moved to another controller until the unit has recovered from the unclean shutdown.

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