12 Contents
Preparing Host Servers to
Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Removing Copy Pairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

13 Configuration: Premium Featureā€”Upgrading

to High-Performance-Tier . . . . . . . . . . . 175

14 Configuration: Device Mapper

Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Using DM Multipathing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Prerequisite Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . 179
Linux Host Server Reboot Best Practices . . . . 183
Important Information About Special Partitions . 183
Limitations and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
15 Management: Firmware Downloads . . . 187
Downloading RAID Controller
and NVSRAM Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Downloading Both RAID Controller
and NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . 190
Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . 192
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