Tasks With The Chassis Closed; Adding Or Replacing Hard Disk Drives; Adding Or Replacing A Power Supply Unit - Kontron CG2300 Installation And Maintenance Manual

5.3

Tasks with the Chassis Closed

The procedures covered in this section all involve hot-swappable components that do not require disconnecting power to the
system or removing the top chassis cover.
5.3.1

Adding or Replacing 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 you install fewer than six hard disk drives, 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 – Test Hardware and Operating System List (THOL)).
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NOTES
SATA rotating HDDs are not recommended for use in this system because they are sensitive to rotational vibration from system
fan blades.
The complete procedure for adding or replacing hard disk drives is covered in Section 3.1 "Adding or Replacing Hot-Swappable
Hard Disk Drives".
5.3.2

Adding or Replacing a Power Supply Unit

Adding a Second Power Supply Module
Depending on the model ordered, the server has one AC or one DC power supply module. A second power supply provides
redundancy. The power supply modules are hot-swappable, so no chassis components have to be removed to add or replace a
module. To add a second power supply module:
1. Remove the filler panel by pressing and holding the green safety lock downward and using the handle to pull the filler
panel out of the slot. (Figure 51 "A" and "B")
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