Installing A Hot-Swap Storage Drive - IBM 7870B4U Service Manual

Installing a hot-swap storage drive

Use these instructions to install a hot-swap storage drive into the blade server.
The blade server has two SAS storage bays for installing hot-swap storage drives,
such as a hot-swap SAS hard disk drive. One storage drive might already be
installed in the blade server in storage bay 0. If the blade server is equipped with
one storage drive, you can install an additional drive in storage bay 1. The blade
server supports using RAID 0 or RAID 1 when two storage drives of the same
interface type are installed. See "Configuring a RAID array" on page 36 for
information about SAS RAID configuration.
To install a hot-swap storage drive or drive filler, complete the following steps.
1. Identify the SAS storage bay (storage bay 0 or storage bay 1) in which the
hot-swap storage drive will be installed (see "Blade server connectors" on page
15).
2. If a storage-bay filler is installed, remove it from the blade server by pulling the
release lever and sliding the filler away from the blade server (see "Removing a
hot-swap storage drive" on page 62).
3. Touch the static-protective package that contains the hot-swap storage drive to
any unpainted metal surface on the BladeCenter unit or any unpainted metal
surface on any other grounded rack component; then, remove the hard disk
drive from the package.
4. Open the release lever on the hot-swap storage drive and slide the drive into
the storage bay until it is firmly seated in the connector.
5. Lock the hot-swap storage drive into place by closing the release lever.
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