CHAPTER 4 PCI Card Hot Maintenance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
4.6 Hot Replacement of PCI Express Cards
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11. Confirm that maintenance mode has been released (with information area of MMB Web-UI not gray out)
and click [Next].
Post-processing of software using a PCI Express card
After replacing a PCI Express card, restart the software stopped before the PCI Express card replacement or
make the software operation applicable again, as needed.
4.6.3 FC card (Fibre Channel card) replacement procedure
The descriptions in this section assume that an FC card is being replaced.
Notes
- The FC card used for SAN boot does not support hot plugging.
- Although you can hot replace FC card used for dump device of sadump, collecting dump of memory fails
until reconfiguring HBA UEFI or extended BIOS with the partition inactive after replacing the FC card.
- This section does not cover configuration changes in peripherals (e.g., UNIT addition or removal for a
SAN disk device).
- This manual does not describe how to change the configuration of peripherals such as expanding and
removing the unit of SAN disk device.