Installing A Hot-Swap Storage Drive - IBM HS22 - BladeCenter - 7870 Installation And User Manual

4. Remove the blade server cover, if one is installed (see "Removing the blade
5. Remove the expansion unit:
6. If you are instructed to return the expansion unit, remove from it any options

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 67 for
information about SAS RAID configuration.
To install a hot-swap storage drive or drive filler, complete the following steps.
1. Before you begin, read "Safety" on page v and "Installation guidelines" on
2. Identify the SAS storage bay (storage bay 0 or storage bay 1) in which the
server cover" on page 24 for instructions).
a. If the expansion unit has an extraction device, use the extraction device to
disengage the expansion unit from the blade server. These extraction
devices can be of several types, including thumbscrews or levers. See the
instructions provided with the expansion unit for detailed instructions for
removing the expansion unit.
b. If the expansion unit does not have an extraction device, press the blade
server cover release on each side of the blade server and lift the expansion
unit from the blade server.
c. Rotate the expansion unit open; then, lift the expansion unit from the blade
server.
that you have installed; then, follow all packaging instructions, and use any
packaging materials for shipping that are supplied to you.
page 21.
hot-swap storage drive will be installed (see "Blade server connectors" on page
19).
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