Hi, I recently bought what I thought was a good deal on 2x FAS2520's with dual controllers and 2x DS2246 Shelves, all drives fully populated with 900GB SAS. I bought these purely for learning ONTAP. They had been wiped by the company I bought them from when they were last used about a year ago.
Both FAS2520's pause on boot-up (I'm connecting via a console cable) saying the NVRAM battery is low. It asks to validate the boot by pressing "C", and then acknowledging that a power failure could cause data loss. If confirm this it tries to boot but says boot is prohibited.
I can still boot, but not the "option 1", but instead only option 2 works. Of course this is no good and whilst it boots into ONTAP it won't load any settings etc.
It appears the NVRAM battery on all 4 nodes is dead. I've checked the manufacturing date on the batteries and it says 2016 on the one pair and 2017 on the other pair.
I've had a look online for the part code on the battery - It's written as NetApp 271-00029 REV C1, but I cannot find anything. There's one or two eBay listings, for "used" batteries, for silly money, but considering the 2016/2017 batteries in these units have all gone bad now then I would only want to buy brand new batteries.
I completely appreciate these are going end of support end of April this year, but they are still a great learning tool.
Is there a different/newer battery code that can be used, or perhaps a 3rd party battery which is suitable? It's a very specialist battery, with a special battery connector, so I suspect there's nothing alternative "off the shelf".
Any ideas please?
