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Galvatron88

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February 6th, 2013 12:00

Urgent! Emercency shutdown of CX3-80

We just had a power surge and now I have amber lights on my storage processors and various errors and warnings in Celerra Manager. I need to do an emergency shutdown of my CX3-80

Does anyone have the shutdown procedures for a cx3-80 / EMC NAS NS80

I need to halt the data movers and I am not sure if I can just use the Celerra Manager (select data movers > shutdown each data mover) or if I have to use the command line via putty

If anyone can help that would be great!

kelleg

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February 6th, 2013 13:00

This is for the CX3-80 Array part - not sure about the NAS side:

The following is a Primus(R) eServer solution:

ID: emc142352

Domain: EMC1

Solution Class: 3.X Compatibility

Goal       What is the correct procedure for powering down a CX3 and CX4 series arrays?

Fact       Product: CLARiiON CX3 series

Fact       Product: CLARiiON CX4 series

Fix        

Follow these steps:

  1. Generate a set of SPcollect files before powering down the CX3 or CX4 series array.
  2. Stop all I/O to the array.
  3. Wait approximately 5 minutes to allow the write cache to finish its writing to the storage system. Writes may not be completed but following this step will ensure data integrity.
  4. Turn off the SPS power switch on each SPS.

    WARNING! Never turn off the power directly to the SPE chassis or the OS-Boot chassis by using any switches on the power supplies. Never unplug any of the AC cables going to the SPE or OS-Boot chassis to disconnect power.
  5. As soon as the second SPS is turned off, any data in the SP (cached data) will be saved to the vault drives.
  6. When the saving of the cached data from the SP is completed (in about 90 seconds), the SPS units will power off by themselves, thus removing power to the SPE chassis and the OS-Boot chassis.
  7. Once Step 6 is complete and the SPS units and the power supplies connected to them have turned off, any other chassis can be turned off by using the power supply switches or by removing cables from their AC source.

Note        

The only power switches that should be used to shut down a CLARiiON CX-series array (SPE/OS-boot chassis or DPE) are the power switches on the standby power supplies (SPS). The CX3-20, CX3-40, and CX3-80 SPE and CX 4 series SP chassis and OS-boot chassis are plugged into the SPS units. From the rear of the cabinet, the left power supply of each chassis (SPE and OS-Boot) is plugged into the left SPS and the right power supplies are plugged into the right SPS.

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