Replace a NIC with the same vendor and device-id¶
The following procedure allows the replacement of a NIC on an AIO-SX system without requiring a system re-install and re-configuration, in the case of the replaced NIC having the same vendor or device ID information.
The normal approach to doing such a change would be to do a system
host-delete, a system host-add (re-install) and a re-configure of the
host. In the case of an AIO-SX deployment, with only one host, this would
result in a full system re-install and full system re-configuration.
Since this procedure reuses same vendor and device ID information and
capabilities, the interface’s new MAC will be updated internally and no
reconfiguration is required. Assuming that the replacement will occur on
the same PCI slot of the previous card, the procedure can be executed for all
types of NIC classes (pci-sriov, data, pci-passthrough, and
platform).
Procedure
Lock the host.
~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-lock <hostname>
Wait for the host to be reported as locked.
Power down the host manually and make the NIC card replacement.
Power up the host.
Unlock the host.
~(keystone_admin)]$ system host-unlock <hostname>
Results
The host is rebooted, and its Availability State is reported as In-Test.
After a few minutes, it is reported as Unlocked, Enabled, and
Available.
