Removing A Hard Drive Or Ssd - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450 Service Manual

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Removing a Hard Drive or SSD

Hard drives can be hot-plugged or cold-plugged. Drives in the Sun Fire X4450 server
might be hot-pluggable, depending on the drive configuration.
To hot-plug a drive you must take the drive offline (to prevent applications from
accessing it, and to remove the logical software links to it) before you can safely
remove it.
To remove a drive from a Sun Fire X4450 server:
1. Identify the drive you wish to remove.
The amber Service Required LED might be lit. For specific drive locations, see
Section 3.2.1, "Sun Fire X4450 Server Drive Guidelines" on page
2. Determine if the drive can be hot-plugged, or cold-plugged.
The following conditions might prevent you from hot-plugging a drive. You must
power off the server, if the drive:
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3. Do one of the following:
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Remove
Service
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Contains the operating system, and the operating system is not mirrored on
another drive.
Cannot be logically isolated from the online operations of the server.
To hot-plug a drive:
Color Lights when
Blue A drive can be removed safely during a
hot-plug operation.
Amber The system is running and the drive is
faulty. The front and rear panel Service
Required LEDs are also lit if the system
detects a drive fault.
Green Data is being read from or written to the
drive.
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