Emerson ATCA-S201 manual Blade Maintenance Firmware upgrades, Backup your blade configuration

RTM-ATCA-SXXX Overview

9Blade Maintenance and

Firmware upgrades

This chapter provides information about preserving all existing blade configuration settings and also installing and updating the firmware loaded on the ATCA-S201 storage services blade. At manufacturing time, the ATCA carrier is pre-loaded with firmware prior to shipping. Periodically, new firmware releases are offered to improve the functionality or performance of the ATCA carrier blade.

9.1Blade Maintenance

The following section describes how to create a backup of an existing blade configuration and how to restore this configuration on a replacement blade. The procedure will record the iSCSI, NAS, volume, and share privileges of all disk storage connected to the ATCA-S201. Moreover, it will record IP attributes of all fabric, base and RTM Ethernet ports, as well as any VLAN, bonds or RAID definitions.

9.1.1Backup your blade configuration

The ATCA-S201 blade software keeps all system configuration data in a single archive file. This file contains all customizations made by the user over the life of the blade. Administrators can manually copy this file to a safe location and later reload the configuration if needed.

The following procedure is a detailed description of the web-based export system configuration procedure.

Export System configuration file using web-GUI tool

Step 2. Navigate to the Maintenance menu. Click the ‘Export’ button.

Step 3. Acknowledge the popup window to confirm and commence the export. The action will create a backup file on the host which can be later imported.

‐ Emerson ATCA-S201

+ iSCSI

+ nfs

+ smb

+ Shares

+ LVM2

+ MD RAID

+ Hardware RAID

‐ Physical Disks

+ Maintenance

StorBlade99 ATCA-S201 System Maintenance

Import Software Update	Browse…	Import
Import System Configuration	Browse…	Import
Export System Configuration	/backup/nvdisk.tar.gz	Export	

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