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Install a hot-swap drive

Use this information to install a hot-swap drive.

About this task

Attention

  • Read Installation Guidelines to ensure that you work safely.

  • 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

  1. Touch the static-protective package that contains the drive to any unpainted surface on the outside of the server. Then, take the drive out of the package and place it on a static-protective surface.
  2. Remove the drive filler from the drive bay and keep the drive filler in a safe place.
    Figure 1. Removing 2.5-inch drive filler
    Removing 2.5-inch drive filler

    Figure 2. Removing 3.5-inch drive filler
    Removing 3.5-inch drive filler

  3. Install the drive in the drive bay.
    1. Ensure that the drive tray handle is in the open position. Slide the drive into the drive bay until it snaps into position.
    2. Close the drive tray handle to lock the drive in place.
    Figure 3. 2.5-inch hot-swap drive
    Opening the drive tray handle

    Figure 4. 3.5-inch hot-swap drive
    Opening the drive tray handle

  4. Check the drive status LED to verify that the drive is operating correctly.
    1. If the yellow drive status LED is lit continuously, that drive is faulty and must be replaced.
    2. If the green drive activity LED is flashing, the drive is being accessed.
  5. Continue to install additional hot-swap drives if necessary.

After you finish

  • Use the Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager to configure the RAID if necessary. See Lenovo XClarity Provisioning Manager portal page.

  • If you have installed U.3 NVMe drives on a 2.5-inch AnyBay 8-bay backplane for Tri-mode, enable U.3 x1 mode for the selected drive slots on the backplane through the XCC Web GUI.

    1. Log into the XCC Web GUI, and choose Storage > Detail from the navigation tree on the left.

    2. In the window that is displayed, click the icon next to Backplane.

    3. In the dialog box that is displayed, select the target drive slots and click Apply.

    4. Do a DC power cycle to make the setting take effect.

Demo video

Watch the procedure on YouTube