Installation guide for 6900/8900 hard drives pub-0193-02.
Installation guide for 6900/8900 hard drives i product version this manual applies to the platforms 6900 and 8900 created by f5 networks, inc. Publication date this guide was published on october 30, 2009. Legal notices copyright copyright 2009, f5 networks, inc. All rights reserved. F5 networks, in...
Ii vcci class a compliance this is a class a product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take corrective actions. The power cables included with this platform are designed for use solely with this platform..
Replacing hard drives • about the hard drives • if a hard drive fails • replacing the primary hard drive with the spare hard drive • creating a spare disk • halting the system.
Replacing hard drives installation guide for 6900/8900 hard drives 1 about the hard drives the big-ip ® 6900 and 8900 platforms have two removable hard drives (shown in figure 1). You can change or replace the hard drives as part of the routine maintenance of the unit or in the event of a drive fail...
2 if a hard drive fails the tasks you perform if you experience a hard drive failure vary, depending on the big-ip software version installed on your system. For version 9.X and 10.0.0 your system cannot use the spare disk as a replacement, but if your primary disk fails, you have two options: ◆ if ...
Replacing hard drives installation guide for 6900/8900 hard drives 3 replacing the primary hard drive with the spare hard drive if you are running version 10.0.1 of the big-ip software and have previously used the sparedisk utility to copy the contents of your primary hard drive to the spare hard dr...
4 8. Suspend the boot process at the grub boot menu by pressing the down arrow key. 9. Select tmos maintenance from the menu to boot into the tmos maintenance operating system and press enter. 10. Type the following command: tmidiag -r hd1 11. Reboot the system by typing the following command: reboo...
Replacing hard drives installation guide for 6900/8900 hard drives 5 creating a spare disk if you are running version 10.0.1, you can use the sparedisk utility to create a backup of the primary disk in your system. Important f5 networks recommends that you perform the following backup procedure when...
6 halting the system you must halt the system and shut it down before you add or remove a hard drive. To halt and power off the unit 1. On the lcd panel, press the x button, then use the arrow keys to navigate to the system menu. 2. Press the check button. 3. Navigate to the halt menu. 4. Press the ...
