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Starwind maintenance mode
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:50 am
by cookiemonster
Hi, I have 2 VSA nodes, and I put the device in maintenance mode and shutdown.
I try to simulate a failure by bringing up only one node VSA, and found that the exit maintenance mode option is greyed out.
Is there anyway to exit the maintenance mode without powering up another node?
Re: Starwind maintenance mode
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:55 am
by Oleg(staff)
Hi,
Yes, it is possible by making changes to StarWind devices *HA.swdsk headers.
But you should be really careful with these changes.
Re: Starwind maintenance mode
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 5:03 pm
by FireMedic
To add a little more info (since I had to experiment for a while with this):
-Stop the starwind service on the node you are taking out of Maintenance Mode BEFORE making any changes to the xxx_HA.swdsk file (apparently when the service stops, it refreshes the file with the running parameters and will overwrite any changes you make).
-Open the xxx_HA.swdsk file and find the parameter <maintenance_mode>true</maintenance_mode> and change to <maintenance_mode>false</maintenance_mode>
-Save the xxx_HA.swdsk file
-Start the starwind service (start-service StarWindService)
Re: Starwind maintenance mode
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 7:12 am
by yaroslav (staff)
Hi,
You are 100% right. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.