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Replacing a front HDD/SSD

Each Lenovo Converged HX Series appliance contains solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). User data is striped across these drives, so they are referred to as data drives. While a node might be able to self-correct for a data drive failure, it does lead to system degradation. You should replace failed data drives as soon as possible. The indications of a failed data drive are:

  • The Prism web console displays a disk alert.

  • The red LED on the front of a drive carrier is illuminated.

Figure 1. S3610 Enterprise performance SATA SSD in a 2.5-inch hot-swap form factor
S3610 Enterprise performance SATA SSD in a 2.5-inch hot-swap form factor

To replace an SSD or HDD in the front of the appliance, perform the following steps:

  1. To identify and prepare for replacing a failed data drive, use the Data Drive Failure procedure in the Nutanix Hardware Replacement Documentation.

  2. During the process, replace the hot swap drive as described in Replacing hot-swap hard disk drives.

  3. Bring the data drive online by using the Completing Drive Replacement procedure in the Nutanix Hardware Replacement Documentation.