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• The vSphere Web Client shows a disk alert.
• The yellow status LED on the node front panel is illuminated.
Remove a hot-swap drive
Use this procedure to remove a drive.
"Read the
installation
Guidelines" on
page 47
Before you remove a drive, make sure you save the data on your drive, especially if it is part of a RAID array,
before you remove it from the node.
Attention:
• To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the solution for more than 2 minutes
without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each bay.
• Before you make changes to drives, drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated on the
system board), drive backplanes, or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored on drives.
• Before you remove any component of a RAID array, back up all RAID configuration information.
• If one or more NVMe solid-state drives are to be removed, disable them beforehand in OS.
Complete the following steps to remove a drive.
Step 1.
Identify the failed drive to be replaced using the procedure
and Availability Technical Documents Repository
Step 2.
Prepare to replace the failed drive.
• Prepare to replace a failed cache drive using the procedure
VMware Storage and Availability Technical Documents Repository
• Prepare to replace the failed capacity drive using the procedure
in the
VMware Storage and Availability Technical Documents Repository
Step 3.
Slide the latch to unlock the drive handle. Grasp the handle and slide the drive out of the drive bay.
Figure 18. Drive removal
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"ATTENTION:
Static Sensitive Device
Ground package before opening"
on page 49
Identify Failed Disk
.
in the
VMware Storage
Removing a Failed Cache Disk
.
Removing a Failed Capacity Disk
.
in the
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