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EMC ED-DCX8510-8B & port blade installation
Hello guys,
I would like to ask you expert guys for an advice regarding SAN director and port blade installation.
My question is:
I have 2 SAN Directors EMC ED-DCX8510-8B per FabricA: DCX1, DCX2. Both of these directors have 5 port blades installed in slots 1,2,3,4,9. I would need to unconfigure and remove port blade from DCX1 from slot 9 and install the port blade to DCX2 to slot 10.
I would like to keep DCX1 and DCX2 directors operational during this reconfiguration activity. Is it possible? Is there some outage? What is needed to do (logical configuration) to unconfigure port blade from DCX1 and configure the port blade to DCX2?
Many thanks for your advices.
I am sorry I am not SAN expert in this.
Hejbi
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April 21st, 2015 04:00
Hello Hejbi
Removing and replacing the port/application blade is disruptive to the end devices connected to that particular blade being replaced. The replacement procedure for each blade takes less than 10 minutes.
Slots are numbered from 1 through 12, from left to right when facing the port side of the Brocade DCX 8510-8. Port and application blades can be installed in slots 1 through 4 and 9 through 12. Removing and restoring transceivers and cables may take longer depending on how many must be changed.
Replacement of port/application blade is a non-customer maintainable hardware procedure, hence please raise a ticket with the switch vendor.
Hejbi
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April 21st, 2015 05:00
Hello rangac1,
thanks a lot for your comment.
Procedure in my mind is the following:
1) disconnect all FC cables from port/application blade installed in slot 9 in DCX1.
2) remove physically port/application blade from slot 9 in DCX1
3) install physically port/application blade to slot 10 in DCX2
4) connect FC cables
Notes:
- DCX1 and DCX2 are SAN Directors for Fabric A
- DCX3 and DCX4 are SAN Directors for Fabric B
- During the step 1, endpoint devices are still connected to SAN Fabric B....so no impact for production
My questions are:
a) is possible to remove port/application blade from slot 9 in DCX1 without complete DCX1 chassis outage? (I need to keep other port blades up and running during removal of blade from slot9)
b) is necessary to do some logical configuration in OS to be able to remove port/application blade from slot9 in DCX1?(some blade deactivation????)
c) is necessary to do some logical configuration in OS after I physically install new port/application blade in DCX2? (some blade activation????)
Many thanks for your answers.
Hejbi
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June 6th, 2015 08:00
Hi Hejbi,
rangac1 is correct.
And your additional questions:
a) yes that is possible.
b) I assume you mean the Fabric OS. Then the answer is no, you do not have to do anything in the Fabric OS. Once all end device cables have been moved, you should be able to turn of the blade with the screw and the leave at the top.
c) Same as answer B, no, nothing special is needed, power up the blade, wait until all lights are out, and POST has finished. And you should be good to go.
Regards,
Ed