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Introduction
ThereareoccasionswhenanITadministratorneedstoreplaceanon‐functionalhardwarecomponentin
theserverandreconfigurethesamefirmwareand/orconfigurationsettingsonthereplacedpart.
Replacingthecardissimpleandstraight‐forward;however,restoringtheconfigurationsettingsand
firmwarecanbeatediousprocessif
donemanually.ThePartReplacementfeatureinLifecycle
Controllerwillrestorefirmwareandconfigurationsettingfromthenon‐functionalparttothereplaced
partinthesameslot.TheLifecycleControllerdetectsthenewreplacedpartinthesystemandapplies
changesaccordingtouserdefinedsettings.
Inthiswhite
paper,youwilllearnabout:
‐ Pre‐requisites
‐ Overviewofpartreplacement
‐ UpdateandconfigurationsettingsinLC
Pre‐requisite
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1. CSIORandLCshouldbeenabled.
2. ExpressorEnterprise‐levellicense.
OverviewAboutPartReplacement
PartReplacementfeatureisusedforrestoringconfiguration settings and/orfir mware.Thisfeatureisa
licensedfeatureandrequiresatleastanExpresslicense.TheactionsdefinedinLifecycleControllerare
appliedonthereplacedcomponentsandthecorrespondingeventsareloggedinLifecycleLog.Part
replacementiscurrentlysupportedon
thefollowingcomponents:
‐ PERCstoragecontroller
‐ Networkdevices(NIC)
‐ Fiberchannel(FC)HBAcards
‐ PSUs
Replaceablecomponentsinthesystemaretargetsforpartreplacementactions.Theseactionsinclude
flashingthenewpartwiththefirmwareversionand/orconfiguringthenewpartwiththesettingsand
configurationoftheoriginalpart.PerformingLifecycleControllerResettoDefaults(LCWipe)hasno
impacttoPartReplacementfeature.IfLifecycleControllerResettoDefaultsactionisperformed,LC
settingsforPartReplacementsettingswillberesettodefaults.Formoreinformationaboutdefault
settings,readthroughthesectionlater
inthiswhitepaper.
BeforeusingPartReplacementfeature,makesurethatthereplacedpartis:
1) InthesamePCIslotwherethenon‐functionalpartwasplaced.