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availability solution for customers. High availability features in Compaq Smart Array Controllers include hot-pluggable hard drives. With hot-pluggable hard drives, customers can remove and replace one or several drives within a server while the system is online for rapid recovery while minimizing - HP ProLiant 1600 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 2
. Compaq, Contura, Deskpro, Fastart, Compaq Insight Manager, LTE, PageMarq, Systempro, Systempro/LT, ProLiant, Compaq PC Card Solution logo are trademarks and/or service marks of Compaq Computer Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows NT Server and Workstation, Microsoft SQL Server - HP ProLiant 1600 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 3
PreFailure Warranty, system administrators can proactively schedule downtime for maintenance and not interrupt critical business operations that rely on these enterprise servers. In addition, with hot-pluggable drives attached to Compaq Smart Array controllers, customers can remove and replace one - HP ProLiant 1600 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 4
LED Indicators are flashing (indicating a rebuild) or not illuminated, the degraded drive should not be hotplugged. For step-by-step instructions on hot-plugging your hard drive, refer to the ProLiant Setup and Installation Guide. • If fault-tolerance is currently being used to recover from errors - HP ProLiant 1600 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 5
Hot-Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Compaq Smart Array Controllers 5 Table 1 shows hot-plug hard drive LED indicator status combinations. Table 1 Hot-Plug Hard Drive LED Indicator Status Combinations 1 Activity 2 Online 3 Fault Means On Off Off On Flashing Off - HP ProLiant 1600 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 6
Array Controller is powered on. Also, do not turn on the server before turning on the disk enclosure. If these ordering rules are not followed, the Smart Array Controller may mark these external drives as "failed,"which could result in permanent data loss. Conclusion Compaq provides superior rapid
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Contents
Rapid Recovery with Hot-
Plug Drives
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Guidelines when hot-
plugging a drive
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3
Guidelines when Insight
Manager indicates that a
drive is degraded and should
be replaced
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Conclusion
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Hot-Plug Disk Drive Removal
and Replacement Guidelines for
Compaq Smart Array
Controllers
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to communicate to customers
the guidelines for implementing hot-plug removal and replacement
of hard drives when using Compaq Smart Array Controllers.
Compaq is fully committed to providing the ideal client/server high
availability solution for customers.
High availability features in
Compaq Smart Array Controllers include hot-pluggable hard drives.
With hot-pluggable hard drives, customers can remove and replace
one or several drives within a server while the system is online for
rapid recovery while minimizing interruption of the network.
In order to maximize high availability, Compaq has issued customer
guidelines on extending and implementing the removal and
replacement of hot-pluggable hard drives.