Normal Maintenance Tasks; Adding Or Replacing Hot-Swappable Hard Disk Drives; Removing An Hdd Carrier From The Chassis - Kontron CG2300 Installation And Maintenance Manual

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Normal Maintenance Tasks

This chapter covers the tasks you will most likely and most often need to do on the CG2300 server. These tasks involve hot-
swappable components only, so there is no need to power down the server or remove the system cover.
3.1

Adding or Replacing Hot-Swappable Hard Disk Drives

Up to six hot-swappable SAS hard disk drives can be installed in the CG2300 server. The drives go into carriers that connect to
the SAS backplane board once the carriers with drives attached are inserted back into the drive bay slots. The CG2300 server
ships with six drive carriers.
While you must remove the front bezel to add or replace a hard drive in one of the drive slots, it is not necessary to remove the
chassis cover or to power down the system. The hard drives are hot-swappable.
CAUTION: If fewer than six hard disk drives are being installed, to maintain proper cooling the unused drive slots must contain the
empty carriers with filler panels that ship with the server.
The CG2300 server does not support all SAS HDD or SATA SSD disk drives. To see a list of validated manufacturers and drive
models, refer to the THOL. The latest version of the THOL is located on the Kontron support website at http://cbu.kontron.ca.
(CRMS – CG2300 – Tested Hardware and Operating System List (THOL)).
NOTE: SATA rotating HDDs are not recommended for use in this system because they are sensitive to rotational vibration from
system fan blades.
3.1.1

Removing an HDD Carrier from the Chassis

1. Remove the front bezel. For instructions, see (I) in Chapter 4.
2. Select the drive slot where the drive will be installed or replaced.
Drive slot 0 must be used first, then drive slot 1, and so on.
(Drive slot numbers are printed on the front panel below the drive slots.)
3. Remove the drive carrier by pressing the green button to open the lever that engages the drive to the backplane. (Figure 1,
"A").
4. Pull the drive carrier out of the chassis.
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