Storage capacity expansion

This section covers the procedure to upgrade the storage block with additional hot-swap drives.

Use this information to install a set of eight hot-swap drives. You can install a hot-swap drive without turning off the storage, which helps you avoid significant interruption to system operation.

Attention

Before installing a hot-swap drive, read and follow the steps in the Hot-swap drive installation preparations

Note

• The term “hot-swap drive” refers to all the supported hot-swap NVMe solid-state drives.

• When upgrading the storage drive capacity, hot-swap drives must be installed in sets of eight.

• Use any documentation that comes with the drive and follow those instructions in addition to the instructions in these topics. Ensure that you have all the cables and other equipment that come with the drive, as specified in its documentation.

• The electromagnetic interference (EMI) integrity and cooling of the storage are protected by having all drive bays covered or occupied. The vacant bays are either covered by an EMI-protective panel or occupied by drive fillers. When installing a drive, save the removed drive filler in case you later remove the drive and need the drive filler to cover the space.

• SED = Self-Encrypting Drive

• NVME = Non-Volatile Memory Express

• Hot-swap drive installation preparations
  This section covers information about the preparations required before installing a storage block hot-swap drive.
• Preparing the drives
  This section covers the steps required for preparing new drives to be added to the storage enclosure.
• Installing the drives
  This section covers the procedure to physically install the set of eight drives to upgrade the storage capacity of the ThinkAgile CP solution.
• Adding drives to the Cloud Controller
  This section covers the procedures to add the newly installed storage drives to the Cloud Controller.