Chapter 6: Adding And Replacing A Hard Drive; Overview; Failed Hard Drive Identification; Hard Drive Leds - Avaya S8730 Maintaining Manual

Chapter 6: Adding and replacing a hard

Overview

Hard drives in the Avaya S8730 server are hot swappable. It is not necessary to take the server
out of service or to turn it off when replacing a hard drive.
The S8730 uses a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) controller to protect against
customer data loss. Models 03 and 04, used for the MAS and MSS-S, provide RAID level 1
redundancy. Model 05, used for the MSS-H, provides RAID level 5 redundancy.

Failed hard drive identification

Hard drives are numbered from left to right starting with number one. There are several way
to identify the hard drive that has failed:
• A major alarm is generate when a hard drive fails. The alarm includes the number of
the failed drive. For more information about displaying active and resolved alarms,
see the maintenance section of Avaya Modular Messaging Help.
• For an MAS, when a hard drive fails, error event 1216 displays in the Windows Event
Viewer System Event Log. The description of the event gives the number of the failed
drive.
• The two LEDs on the front of each hard drive in combination give the drive status.
Related topics:

Hard drive LEDs

Hard drive LEDs
Use the following information from the LEDs located on the front of a drive to diagnose its
status.
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