Cisco UCS B200 M3 Installation And Service Note page 9

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Installing and Removing a Blade Server Hard Drive
There are up to two front-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch drives per blade. An LSI SAS 2004 RAID
controller is embedded in the motherboard (it is not separately replaceable), and it supports RAID 0 and
1. You can remove blade server hard drives without removing the blade server from the chassis. All other
component replacements for a blade server requires removing the blade from the chassis. Unused hard
drive bays should always be covered with cover plates (N20-BBLKD) to ensure proper cooling and
ventilation. The chassis is omitted from illustrations here to simplify the drawing.
To prevent ESD damage, wear grounding wrist straps during these procedures and handle modules by
Caution
the carrier edges only.
Caution RAID array migration between a B200 M1 or B200 M2 and a B200 M3 is not supported
Replacing an HDD or SSD with a drive of the same size, model, and manufacturer should not cause any
problems with UCS Manager. If the drive being replaced was part of a RAID array. we recommend using
a newly ordered drive of identical size, model, and manufacturer to replace the failed drive. We
recommend following industry standard practice of using drives of the same capacity when creating
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Installing and Removing a Blade Server Hard Drive
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