You can replace a control enclosure chassis.
Note: Ensure that you know the type of enclosure chassis that
you are replacing. The procedures for replacing a control enclosure
chassis are different from those procedures for replacing an expansion
enclosure chassis.
To replace an expansion enclosure
chassis, see Replacing an expansion enclosure chassis.
DANGER
When working on or around the system, observe
the following precautions:
Electrical voltage and current from
power, telephone, and communication cables are hazardous. To avoid
a shock hazard:
- If Lenovo supplied a power cord(s), connect power to this unit
only with the Lenovo provided power cord. Do not use the Lenovo provided
power cord for any other product.
- Do not open or service any power supply assembly.
- Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation,
maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical
storm.
- The product might be equipped with multiple power cords. To remove
all hazardous voltages, disconnect all power cords.
- Connect all power cords to a properly wired and grounded electrical
outlet. Ensure that the outlet supplies proper voltage and phase rotation
according to the system rating plate.
- Connect any equipment that will be attached to this product to
properly wired outlets.
- When possible, use one hand only to connect or disconnect signal
cables.
- Never turn on any equipment when there is evidence of fire, water,
or structural damage.
- Disconnect the attached power cords, telecommunications systems,
networks, and modems before you open the device covers, unless instructed
otherwise in the installation and configuration procedures.
- Connect and disconnect cables as described in the following procedures
when installing, moving, or opening covers on this product or attached
devices.
To disconnect:
- Turn off everything (unless instructed otherwise).
- Remove the power cords from the outlets.
- Remove the signal cables from the connectors.
- Remove all cables from the devices.
To connect:
- Turn off everything (unless instructed otherwise).
- Attach all cables to the devices.
- Attach the signal cables to the connectors.
- Attach the power cords to the outlets.
- Turn on the devices.
- Sharp edges, corners and joints might be present in and around
the system. Use care when handling equipment to avoid cuts, scrapes
and pinching.
Attention: Perform this procedure
only if instructed to do so by a service action or the IBM support
center. If you have a single control enclosure, this procedure requires
that you shut down your system to replace the control enclosure. If
you have more than one control enclosure, you can keep part of the
system running, but you lose access to the volumes that are on the
affected I/O group and any volumes that are in other I/O groups that
depend on the drives that are in the affected I/O group. If the system
is still performing I/O requests in all the I/O groups, schedule the
replacement during a maintenance period or other time when the I/O
can be stopped.
Be careful when
you are replacing the hardware components that are located in the
back of the system that you do not inadvertently disturb or remove
any cables that you are not instructed to remove.
Ensure that you are aware of the procedures for handling static-sensitive
devices before you remove the enclosure.
To replace a control enclosure chassis, complete the
following steps.
- If you are able to access either of the node
canisters with the service assistant, record the machine type and
model of the enclosure, the serial number of the enclosure, and the
two WWNNs for the enclosure.
- From the service assistant home page, open the location
data for the node. Record the machine type and model (MTM), the serial
number, WWNN 1 and WWNN 2 from the enclosure column.
Note: If you are replacing the enclosure because neither node
canister can start, retrieve this information after you have completed
the replacement.
- Start the service assistant on one of the canisters.
- Go to the node location data on the home page.
- Record the machine type and model, the serial number,
WWNN 1 and WWNN 2 from the node copy column.
The machine type and model and the serial number are also shown
on the labels at the front and back of the enclosure.
- If the enclosure
is still active, shut down the host I/O and the Metro Mirror and Global
Mirror activity to all the volumes that depend on the affected enclosure.
This statement applies to all volumes in the I/O group that
are managed by this enclosure plus any volumes in other I/O groups
that depend on the drives in the affected I/O group.
- If your
system contains a single I/O group and if the clustered system is
still online, shut the system down by using the management GUI.
- From the management GUI, go to .
- Select Power off from the Actions menu.
- Wait for the shutdown to complete.
- If
your system contains more than one I/O group and if this I/O group
is still online, shut down the I/O group by using the CLI.
- Identify the two nodes in the I/O group.
- To shut down each node, issue the following CLI command
once for each of the two node canisters:
stopsystem -force -node <node ID>
- Wait for the shutdown to complete.
- Verify that it is safe to remove the power from the enclosure.
For each of the canisters, verify the status of
the system status LED. If the LED is lit on either of the canisters,
do not continue because the system is still online.
Determine why the node canisters did not
shut down in step 3 or step 4.Note: If you continue while the system is still active,
you risk losing the clustered system configuration and volume cache
data that is stored in the canister.
- Turn off the power to the enclosure using the switches
on the power supply units.
- Record which data cables are plugged into the specific
ports.
The cables must be inserted back into the same ports after the
replacement is complete; otherwise, the system cannot function properly.
- Disconnect the cable retention brackets and the power cords
from the power supply units.
- Disconnect the data cables for each canister.
- Remove the power supply units from the enclosure.
- Remove the canisters from the enclosure.
Record the location of each canister. They must be inserted
back into the same location in the new enclosure.
- Remove all the drives and blank drive assemblies from the
enclosure.
Record the location for each drive. They must be inserted back
into the same location in the new enclosure.
- Remove both enclosure end caps from the enclosure.
Important: Keep the left end cap because it is used
again.
- Remove the clamping screws that attached the enclosure
to the rack cabinet.
- Remove the enclosure chassis from the front of the rack
cabinet and take the chassis to a work area.
- Install the new enclosure chassis in the rack cabinet.
- Remove the end caps from the new enclosure and install
the clamping screws that attach the enclosure to the rack cabinet.
- Replace the end caps.
Use the new right end cap and use the left end cap that you
removed in step
13.
Using the left end cap that you removed preserves the model and serial
number identification.
- Reinstall the drives in the new enclosure.
The drives must be inserted back into the same location from
which they were removed on the old enclosure.
- Reinstall the canisters in the enclosure.
The canisters must be inserted back into the same location from
which they were removed on the old enclosure.
- Install the power supply units.
- Reattach the data cables to each canister using the information
that you recorded previously.
Note: The cables must be inserted back into the same ports from
which they were removed on the old enclosure; otherwise, the system
cannot function properly.
- Attach the power cords and the cable retention brackets
to the power supply units.
- Write the old enclosure machine type and model (MTM) and
serial number on the repair identification (RID) tag that is supplied.
Attach the tag to the left flange at the back of the enclosure.
- Turn on the power to the enclosure using the switches on
the power supply units.
The node canisters boot up. The fault LEDs
are on because the new enclosure has not been set with the identity
of the old enclosure. The node canisters log node error 504, reporting
that they are in the wrong location. In the system event log these
appear with an error code of 1192.
- Connect to the service assistant on one of
the node canisters to configure the machine type and model, serial
number, and WWNNs that are stored in the enclosure.
If you have replaced a node canister, connect to the canister
that has not been replaced. You can connect using the previous service
address. However, it is not always possible to maintain this address.
If you cannot connect through the original service address, attempt
to connect using the default service address. If you still cannot access the system, see the
topic that contains information about connecting to the service assistant.
- Use the Configure enclosure panel.
- Select the options to Update WWNN
1, Update WWNN 2, Update
the machine type and model, and Update the
serial number.
Do not update the system ID. Use the node copy data for each
of the values. Check that these values match the values that you recorded
in step
1.
If you were not able to record the values, use the node copy values
only if none of them have all zeroes as their value. If any of the
node copy values are all zeroes, connect the service assistant to
the other node canister and configure the enclosure there. If you
still do not have a full set of values, contact IBM support.
Important: Step
29 writes the enclosure identity into the replacement midplane.
The replacement midplane cannot be used as a replacement part for
a different enclosure after step
29 is completed.
- Click the Modify button.
The node writes the data and attempts to restart.
Note: There are situations where the canisters restart and
report critical node error 508. If the node canisters fail to become
active after they restart when the enclosure is updated, check their
status by using the service assistant. If both node canisters show
critical node error 508, use the service assistant to restart the
nodes.
For any other node error, follow the
procedure for fixing node errors. To
restart a node from the service assistant, perform the following steps:
- Log on to the service assistant.
- From the home page, select the node that you want to restart from
the Changed Node List.
- Select .
The system starts and can handle I/O requests from the
host systems.
Note: The configuration changes that are described in
the following steps must be performed to ensure that the system is
operating correctly. If you do not perform these steps, the system
is unable to report certain errors.
- Start the management GUI and select .
You see an additional enclosure in the system list because
the system has detected the replacement control enclosure. The original
control enclosure is still listed in its configuration. The original
enclosure is listed with its original enclosure ID. It is offline
and managed. The new enclosure has a new enclosure ID. It is online
and unmanaged.
- Select the original enclosure.
Verify that it is offline and managed and that the serial number
is correct.
- Right-click the enclosure and
select Remove.
The physical hardware has already been removed. You can
ignore the messages about removing the hardware. Verify that the original
enclosure is no longer listed in the tree view.
- Add the new enclosure to the system.
- From the Actions menu, select Add Enclosures.
- Because you have already added the hardware, select Next on the first panel that asks you to install the
hardware.
The next panel shows the unmanaged new enclosure.
- Follow the steps in the wizard. The wizard
changes the control enclosure to Managed.
- Select the enclosure and add it to the system.
- Select the new enclosure and verify that it is now online
and managed.
- Change the enclosure ID of the replaced
enclosure to that of the original enclosure. Right-click the control
enclosure and select Modify ID and change the
ID to that of the original enclosure.
- Check the status of all volumes and physical storage to
ensure everything is online.
- Restart the host application and any FlashCopy activities,
Global Mirror activities, or Metro Mirror activities that were stopped.