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chris_connell_1
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Nov 23, 2009

command to make a slot primary/secondary

Hi,   On a viprion system I am looking for a command to make the slot primary or secondary, either by forcing another slot to be primary, or the current primary to be secondary. I am talking abou...
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chris_connell_1
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Nov 23, 2009
OK, I will explain

 

 

We have 2 blades in the viprion chassis. There is the cluster IP and management IP for each blade. Each blade has its management port connected to a different switch for redundancy. If for example the first switch fails which is connected to the first blade, we are not able to reach the cluster IP or the first blade IP (as there is no failover mechanism for the management port). We can get on the gui and ssh to the second blade ip but cant make changes, since the first blade internally is still primary.

 

 

The only way I know to make the second blade primary (thus able to make changes on the gui and access the cluster ip), is to reboot the first blade, but I am sure there must be a quicker way to do it. This is why I want to know if there is a simple command to change a slot to be primary.

 

 

  • brad_11480's avatar
    brad_11480
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    Jul 13, 2017

    From what I'm gathering running a guest across slots/blades is not a good approach. Keep each guest on a single blade. Unless you are running a single copy of a guest and want to have some availability if a blade fails. Running two guests in HA with each guest on a separate blade would achieve the same with better availability.