topic Change Serial Number on Edge VSA in ONTAP Discussions

Change Serial Number on Edge VSA

MIKE_ELLIS — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:47:11 GMT

I am having an issue trying to change the serial number for the Edge VSA. I tried to follow a few steps that work with the simulator but the variable is read only when following this process. The reason I need to change the serial number is because VSC and SMVI has issues adding 2 controllers with the same serial number. Is this even possible? What am I missing?

https://communities.netapp.com/thread/10624

Currently using Edge VSA 8.1.1 eval

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Change Serial Number on Edge VSA

RAVI_PALADUGU — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:24:25 GMT

You can’t change the serial number after the initial configuration.

Boot the simulator again.

When you see Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt, hit Ctrl-C.

You will then enter the SIMLOADER prompt.

Enter the following commands to set your unique serial number.

1. set bootarg.nvram.sysid=1111111101

2. set SYS_SERIAL_NUM=1111111101

3. boot

Re: Change Serial Number on Edge VSA

MIKE_ELLIS — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:44:36 GMT

Ravi,

I tried those commands on the Edge but the bootarg.nvram.sysid is not present on initial boot and is overwritten during the initial setup and the SYS_SERIAL_NUM is read only from the start. Remember this is not the simulator I am talking about. It is the eval version of the Edge VSA.

I deployed 2 from new build and they generated different system IDs but the serial number is still the same. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike Ellis

Re: Change Serial Number on Edge VSA

matthewrbailey — Tue, 05 May 2015 17:53:05 GMT

Hey Mike,

did you ever get figure out how to change the license key for data ontap edge?

we are having same issue for VSC.

thanks,

Matt

Re: Change Serial Number on Edge VSA

DAWSONSCALAR — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:09:07 GMT

In boot_diags for regular ONTAP systems, there is a VSA command:

usage:  vsa config replace serialno <key>

                Replace the serial number with the new one derived from <key>.

        vsa config replace all <key>

                Replace the serial number, system ID, model number and OEM ID
                with the information derived from <key>.
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Contact support and see if they will give you a key