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Installing and Removing a Blade Server Hard Drive

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Installing and Removing a Blade Server Hard Drive

There are up to 2 front-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch drives per blade. An LSI 1064E 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 replacement 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 assure 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.

Seagate SATA disks and Intel or Samsung SATA SSDs are not supported in UCS Manager release 1.2(1)

Note

and cannot be used with servers using UCS Manager release 1.2(1).

Replacing an HDD or SSD with a drive of the same size, model, and manufacturer generally causes few

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. Cisco

recommends following industry standard practice of using drives of the same capacity when creating

RAID volumes. If drives of different capacities are used, the usable portion of the smallest drive will be

used on all drives that make up the RAID volume. Before upgrading or adding an HDD to a running

system, check the service profile in UCS Manager and make sure the new hardware configuration will

be within the parameters allowed by the service profile.

Hard disk and RAID troubleshooting information is in the "Troubleshooting Server Hardware" chapter

of the

Cisco UCS Troubleshooting

Guide.

Cisco UCS B250 Extended Memory Blade Server Installation and Service Note

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