IMPORTANT: For cooling purposes, always leave disk drive fillers in slots that do not contain a disk drive.

Removing a Hot-Swappable Disk Drive Filler

To remove a hot-swappable disk drive filler, follow these steps:

1.Squeeze the tabs on the front of the filler to release it from the slot in the drive bay.

2.Pull gently until the filler slides out of the chassis.

Replacing a Hot-Swappable Disk Drive Filler

To replace a hot-swappable disk drive filler, follow these steps:

1.Orient the disk drive filler so that the release tab is on the left side of the filler and the airflow holes are on the right side of the filler.

2.Insert the filler into the slot guides, and slide the filler into the slot until it clicks into place and is fully seated.

Installing a Hot-Pluggable Disk Drive

There are eight hot-pluggable disk drives located in the front of the server. You can replace the hot-pluggable disk drives using the procedures in this section when the server power is on or off.

CAUTION: Drives are loaded in the factory, starting with number 8, working from right to left and bottom to top. If you have never changed your SAS configuration before, you can safely move SAS devices downwards as a block. If you have bays 6, 7, and 8 occupied you can move them down to bays 1, 2, and 3 without having the hardware paths change during a cold-install or recovery while the system is shut down, but you must move the disks in order and you cannot rearrange them. For example, you can move bay 6 to 1, 7 to 2, and 8 to 3. After doing this you can safely populate the SAS enclosure from bay 4 onwards. The same procedure can be performed on bays 9 to 16.

CAUTION: A hot-pluggable device may require interaction with the operating system before you can safely remove it from or install it into the server. Verify that the operating system supports removing and replacing 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 can result in system failure.

TIP: When you receive an HP Integrity rx3600 or HP Integrity rx6600 server from HP, if you ever plan to add other SAS devices into the system, you should consider moving the SAS devices so they start in bay 1 going upwards instead of Bay 8 going downwards.

Installing a Hot-Pluggable Disk Drive

NOTE: The replacement disk drive must have the same product number as the disk drive that you replace.

To install a hot-pluggable disk drive, follow these steps:

1.Use Figure 3-5to determine the next available disk drive installation slot.

2.Remove the disk drive filler if required. See “Removing a Hot-Swappable Disk Drive Filler” (page 60).

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