Removing And Replacing An Internal Hard Disk Drive - HP Integrity rx2620 User's & Service Manual

Removing and Replacing Components
Removing and Replacing Hot-Swap and Hot-Plug Devices
Step 5. Verify the power supply replacement by using the utilities identified in Appendix C, "Utilities," on
page 167.
• Use the PS command of the iLO MP to verify power supply operation.
Step 6. Replace the front bezel.

Removing and Replacing an Internal Hard Disk Drive

This section provides information about removing and replacing internal hard disk drives.
The HP Integrity rx2620 server supports up to three hot-pluggable, low-voltage differential (LVD) hard disk
drives. These hard disk drives are 3.5-inch form factor devices that connect to Ultra 320 Wide LVD SCSI
interfaces on the disk cage backplane.
There is a significant difference between the terms hot-pluggable and hot-swappable:
• Hot swapping happens at the device level; a hot-swappable device manages insertion and removal on its
own without assistance from operating system commands.
• Hot-plugging allows you to replace a defective disk drive in a high-availability server while it is running.
You may need to interface with the operating system when hot-plugging a device.
A hot-plug device may require interaction with the operating system before the device can be
CAUTION
safely installed into the server. Verify that the operating system supports installing disk drives
while the operating system is running. If the operating system does not support this feature,
shut down the operating system before attempting this procedure. Failure to observe this
caution results in server failure.
Removing a Hard Disk Drive
To remove a hard disk drive, perform the following steps:
Step 1. If the server is powered on and the OS is running, prepare the OS to have the disk drive removed.
Shut down your OS by following your OS instructions.
Step 2. If you have not locked your hard drives, proceed to step 3. If you have locked your hard drives, you
must unlock them before removing or replacing a drive:
a. Remove the top metal cover. See "Removing the Top Metal Cover" on page 50 for more
information.
b. Press down on the unlock lever to unlock the drive. See Figure 4-15 for more information.
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If you try to remove a hard disk drive without unlocking it from the server, you
will damage the hard drive bay.
If the drive bay is not locked, the procedure for installing additional hard disk
drives can be accomplished without removing the server from the rack and it is
not necessary to remove the top cover. Completion of the procedure would not
require locking the disk bay, replacing the top metal cover, or replacing the server
in the rack.
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