Step 4: Removing Drives; Subsystem Management Logical/Physical View Of Exported Drives - IBM System Storage DCS Series Installation And Migration Manual

Figure 1. Subsystem Management Logical/Physical View of exported drives
6. Click Close to close the Export Array window.

Step 4: Removing drives

See the Installation, User's and Maintenance Guide before you perform this procedure
to ensure that it applies to your storage subsystem.
To remove the hard disk drives, complete the following steps.
Note: Remove the drives one at a time from the storage enclosure.
1. While the power to the storage subsystem is still turned on, press the inside of
2. Lift the closed latch to its open position. (The latch is at a 90° angle to the front
3. Using the handle, slowly pull the drive 1.27 cm (0.5 in.) out of the drive bay.
4. Wait at least 30 seconds to allow the hard disk drive to spin down before you
5. Place the hard disk drive into an ESD bag or container before you move it to
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After a successful export, the array appears in Exported - ready to import state
when you hover the mouse pointer over the Array icon, and the drives appear
in Offline state. See Figure 1.
the bottom of the tray handle to release the blue latch.
of the drive when it is open.)
Note: Your hard disk drives might have a different latching mechanism than
the one shown in Figure 2 on page 19. See the documentation that comes with
your storage enclosure for details.
Note: For DCS3700 with Gen2 Controllers slowly pull the drive forward until it
hits the drawer cross brace.
remove it from the drive bay.
the new DS4000 storage subsystem.