Management software recovery and reinstallation

If a hard drive fails, or if the management software is configured incorrectly or becomes corrupted, you might need to reinstall all or part of the management software on the management node.

The IBM® Flex System Manager management node comes with three drives: one hard disk drive and two solid state drives. Each of the management node drives comes pre-configured with components of the IBM Flex System Manager management software. The hard disk drive contains the following:
  • The recovery partition, which is used to install the management software
  • The spare virtual disk images, which are used to perform upgrades
  • Storage space for backup images
The solid state drives are mirrored (RAID 1), and contain the following:
  • The management software virtual machine
  • The host operating system

A fully functional management node requires that all three hard drives, and the software components on each one, be operational. If the hard disk drive fails, or if both solid state drives fail, you must reconfigure the RAID boot settings through the LSI Corp Configuration Utility before you can reinstall the management software.

If a hard drive fails, or if the management software is configured incorrectly or becomes corrupted, you might need to reinstall all or part of the management software on the management node. The type of reinstallation that is required depends on the type of management node or management software problem.

Before you reinstall all or part of the management software, determine whether the hard drives and other management node hardware components are functional. Then, determine which of the following procedures is necessary for your management node. For more information about troubleshooting hard drives, see Hard disk drive problems.

Parent topic: IBM Flex System Manager management node