Drive Support Information; Drive Installation Guidelines; Installing An Lff Drive - HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 User Manual

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CAUTION:

To avoid data loss, Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that you back up all server data before installing or removing

a hardware option, or performing a server maintenance or troubleshooting procedure.

CAUTION:

To prevent damage to electrical components, properly ground the server before beginning any installation, removal, or

replacement procedure. Improper grounding can cause electrostatic discharge.

Install any hardware options before initializing the server.

If multiple options are being installed, read the installation instructions for all the hardware options to identify similar steps and

streamline the installation process.

If the hardware option installation involves internal cabling, review the Cabling guidelines.

Drive support information

This server has four drive bays that support:

Non-hot-plug LFF SATA hard drives

Non-hot-plug SFF SATA hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD)

SFF drive configurations require the LFF-to-SFF drive converter option.

The embedded Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel VROC) supports software RAID for direct attached SATA drives

Install an HPE type-p PCIe plug-in storage controller option to support hardware RAID .

Subtopics

Installing an SFF drive

Drive installation guidelines

Populate drive bays based on the drive numbering sequence. Start from the drive bay with the lowest device number .

All drives grouped into the same drive array must meet the following criteria:

They must be either all hard drives or all solid-state drives.

Drives should be the same capacity to provide the greatest storage space efficiency when drives are grouped together into the same

drive array.

The system automatically sets all device numbers.

Installing an LFF drive

Prerequisites

HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 User Guide

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