Install the front 2.5-inch-drive backplane
About this task
The following describes how to install the backplane for ten 2.5-inch hot-swap drives. You can install the backplane for eight 2.5-inch hot-swap drives in the same way.
Read Installation guidelines to ensure that you work safely.
Power off the server and disconnect all power cords for this task.
Prevent exposure to static electricity, which might lead to system halt and loss of data, by keeping static-sensitive components in their static-protective packages until installation, and handling these devices with an electrostatic-discharge wrist strap or other grounding system.
Procedure
After you finish
Reinstall all the drives and drive fillers into the drive bays. See Install a hot-swap drive.
- Use the Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager to configure the RAID if necessary. For more information, see the
RAID Setup
section in the LXPM documentation compatible with your server at Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager portal page. If you have installed a 2.5-inch AnyBay 10-bay backplane with U.3 NVMe drives for Trimode, enable U.3 x1 mode for the selected drive slots on the backplane through the XCC Web GUI.
Log into the XCC Web GUI, and choose
from the navigation tree on the left.In the window that is displayed, click the icon
next to Backplane.
In the dialog box that is displayed, select the target drive slots and click Apply.
Do a DC power cycle to make the setting take effect.
Demo video