• The system automatically sets all drive numbers.
• If only one drive is used, install it in the bay with the lowest drive number.
• The NVMe SSD is a PCIe bus device. Devices attached to a PCIe bus cannot be removed without allowing the device
and bus to complete and cease the signal/traffic flow.
Do not remove an NVMe SSD from the drive bay while the Do not remove LED is flashing. The Do not remove LED
flashes to indicate that the device is still in use. Removal of the NVMe SSD before the device has completed and
ceased signal/traffic flow can cause loss of data.
• Drives with the same capacity provide the greatest storage space efficiency when grouped into the same drive array.
Installing an LFF or SFF hot-plug drive
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, do not operate the server unless all bays are
populated with either a component or a blank.
CAUTION: The maximum inlet ambient temperature for most components installed in the system is 35°C (95°F).
Some components, however, are subject to thermal limitations depending on the chassis model and the fan
configuration. There are some hardware configurations where it is necessary to limit the number of drives installed
in the chassis. For more information, see Temperature requirements in the server user guide on the Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (
https://www.hpe.com/info/ApolloDX2000Gen10-docs).
Procedure
1. If installed, remove the front bezel.
2. Remove the drive blank.
• SFF drive blank
• LFF drive blank
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