HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share - Manual (Page 224)

Replacing, adding, and removing hardware, and upgrading firmware 8–26
8.3.6 Removing a dual or a bonded Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
In an HP SFS system where a dual or a bonded Gigabit Ethernet interconnect is used, you can downgrade
the system to use a single Gigabit Ethernet interconnect. The entire HP SFS system must be downgraded, as
described here (that is, you cannot downgrade some servers to use a single Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
and leave other servers using a dual or a bonded Gigabit Ethernet interconnect).
To downgrade a dual or a bonded Gigabit Ethernet interconnect in an existing HP SFS system to become
a single Gigabit Ethernet interconnect, perform the following steps:
1. Unmount the file systems on all client nodes.
2. Stop all file systems, as shown in the following example, where the
data
file system is stopped:
sfs> stop filesystem data
Repeat this command for each file system.
3. Use the
configure system
command to unconfigure the old network, as follows:
a. Enter the
configure system
command.
b. Select the
Configure networks
option, and unconfigure the old network.
c. If you are removing a bonded Gigabit Ethernet, select the
Delete a Bonded Network
device
option, and delete the bonded network device.
4. Reconfigure all servers in the system by entering the
configure server
command, as shown in
the following example:
sfs> configure servers south[1-8]
5. Shut down all of the servers in the system, as shown in the following example:
sfs> shutdown server south[1-8]
6. Remove the dual-port Gigabit Ethernet NC7170 network adapter from the first PCI slot of each server.
Refer to the documentation for the adapter and the server for details on how to remove PCI cards
safely on your particular server type.
7. Boot all of the servers.
8. If Gigabit Ethernet (single, dual, or bonded) is no longer being used as an interconnect, ensure that
Gigabit Ethernet (
tcp
) is not listed as an interconnect for any file system. Enter the
show
filesystem
command and determine if
tcp
is listed as an interconnect for a file system; if it is,
enter the
modify filesystem filesystem_name
command, select the
Change
interconnect
option, and remove
tcp
from the list of interconnects for the file system.
Repeat this step for each file system where
tcp
was listed as an interconnect.
9. Start all file systems.
10. When the file systems restart, the client nodes can remount the file systems. If a client node fails to
remount a file system, reboot the client node.