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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 - HP ProLiant 8500 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 2
or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Compaq, Contura, Deskpro, Fastart, Compaq Insight Manager, LTE, PageMarq, Systempro, Systempro/LT, ProLiant, TwinTray, ROMPaq, LicensePaq, QVision, SLT, ProLinea, SmartStart, NetFlex, DirectPlus, QuickFind, RemotePaq, BackPaq, TechPaq, SpeedPaq - HP ProLiant 8500 | 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 8500 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 4
instructions on hot-plugging your hard drive, refer to the ProLiant Setup and Installation Guide Compaq cabling guidelines when configuring an array to implement the best possible cabling solution for his server. • The customer should check for cabling configurations that are not supported problems. - HP ProLiant 8500 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 5
will cause data loss. The drive is being accessed and is not configured as part of an array. Do not remove the drive. Removing a drive during this recovery options. IMPORTANT: Before replacing a degraded drive, use Compaq Insight Manager to examine the error counters recorded for each physical - HP ProLiant 8500 | Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Co - Page 6
your Smart Array Controller's user guide for information on fault tolerance options 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
White Paper
November 1999
11DT-119A-WWEN
Prepared by Storage Products
Division
Compaq Computer Corporation
Contents
Rapid Recovery with Hot-
Plug Drives
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3
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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4
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.