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Completing system restoration

You must complete a series of tasks before restoring your system to full operation.
  • Recabling the system
    After running diagnostics, you must recable the controller module's storage and network connections.
  • Reassigning disks
    If the storage system is in an HA pair, the system ID of the new controller module is automatically assigned to the disks when the giveback occurs at the end of the procedure.
  • Installing licenses for the replacement node in ONTAP
    You must install new licenses for the replacement node if the impaired node was using ONTAP features that require a standard (node-locked) license. For features with standard licenses, each node in the cluster should have its own key for the feature.
  • Restoring Storage and Volume Encryption functionality
    After replacing the controller module or NVRAM module for a storage system that you previously configured to use Storage or Volume Encryption, you must perform additional steps to provide uninterrupted Encryption functionality. You can skip this task on storage systems that do not have Storage or Volume Encryption enabled.
  • Verifying LIFs
    Before returning the replacement controller to service, you should verify that the LIFs are on their home ports and reset automatic giveback.