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| Title | Unix Tip: Replacing batteries on a Sun StorEdge disk array |
| Type | Tip |
| Source | ITworld.com 09/09/2007 |
| Summary | If I'd had a stopwatch, I'd know for sure, but I'd swear that it took the field engineer less than a minute to replace the batteries in my FC 3510 disk array. The battery modules on these fiber channel devices are hot swappable, so there
was no need to shut anything down or to fail over either controller. Instead,
after the turning of two thumbscrews, the battery module with the expired
battery was extracted and a new one inserted in its place. Then the process
was completed for the second battery module. I had only recently come to notice that the batteries had expired. Using the sccli (StorEdge controller command line interface) command, I had noted the expiration dates were well enough in the past that replacing them as soon as possible was a good idea. When I checked the batteries, the battery status information looked like this: continue  |
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