Removing clustering hardware

Halt both filers by typing the following command at their consoles:

halt

Power off both filers and all disk shelves.

Go to Removing the Channel B cabling."

Make sure that you have turned off both filers and all disk shelves.

Make sure that you ground yourself using the antistatic strap, then remove the HSSDC connector from the Channel B FC-AL adapter on the local filer.

Remove all Channel B cabling from the filers and disk shelves, then remove all Channel B LRC cards from the disk shelves.

See the appropriate fibre channel disk shelf guide for more information about removing LCR cards.

Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for the partner filer.

Go to Removing the clustering hardware.

Remove the cluster interconnect cables.

Open the back of the filer, as described in the F700 Series Hardware Guide.

While grounded with the antistatic strap, remove the cluster interconnect adapter, as described in the F700 Series Hardware Guide.

Remove the unused FC-AL cards, as described in the F700 Series Hardware Guide.

Close the back of the filer, then power on the disk shelves, then the filer. Monitor the messages on the filers during boot.

Enter the following command from the console:

cf status

Result

Cluster monitoring is turned off, as indicated by the following message:

cf status

Cluster disabled.