Servicing Storage Drives (Cru); Storage Drives Hot-Plug Conditions - Oracle X7-2 Service Manual

Servicing Storage Drives (CRU)

This section describes how to service storage drives. Storage drives are customer-replaceable
units (CRUs) that do not require you to power off the server. For more information about CRUs,
see "Illustrated Parts Breakdown" on page 19
"Storage Drives Hot-Plug Conditions" on page 65
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"Storage Drive Failure and RAID" on page 66
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"Storage Drive Locations and Numbering" on page 66
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"Removing and Replacing a Storage Drive" on page 67
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"Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Oracle Solaris" on page 71
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"Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Oracle Linux" on page 74
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"Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Microsoft Windows
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Server" on page 78
Related Information
"Remove and Install Filler Panels" on page 209
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Storage Drives Hot-Plug Conditions

The hard-disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), or NVMe SSD drives that are installed
in the server are in most cases hot-pluggable. This capability depends on how the drives are
configured and whether the drive is an NVMe device. To hot-plug a drive you must be able to
take the drive offline before you can remove it. When you take the drive offline, you prevent
any application from accessing the drive and remove the logical software links to the drive. For
an NVMe storage drive, you must not only take the drive offline, but also power down the drive
slot.
The following conditions inhibit the ability to perform hot-plugging of a drive:
The drive provides the operating system, and the operating system is not mirrored on
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another drive.
and "Customer-Replaceable Units" on page
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