additional steps before and after the hot-swap. For information about the commands that apply
to your system, see the applicable Data ONTAP 8.x
Storage Management Guide. If your
system is operating in clustered Data ONTAP, the document is titled
Physical Storage
Management Guide.
Find a Storage Management Guide for your version of ONTAP 9
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The best practice is to have the current version of the Disk Qualification Package (DQP)
installed before hot-swapping a disk drive or carrier.
Having the current version of the DQP installed allows your system to recognize and utilize
newly qualified disk drives; therefore, avoiding system event messages about having non-
current disk drive information. You also avoid the possible prevention of disk partitioning
because disk drives are not recognized. The DQP also notifies you of non-current disk drive
firmware.
NetApp Downloads: Disk Qualification Package
Steps
1.
If you want to manually assign drive ownership for the replacement drive, you need to
disable automatic drive assignment replacement drive, if it is enabled
Note: You manually assign drive ownership and then reenable automatic drive assignment
later in this procedure.
a. Verify whether automatic drive assignment is enabled:
storage disk option show
You can enter the command on either controller module.
If automatic drive assignment is enabled, the output shows
on
in the "Auto Assign"
column (for each controller module).
b. If automatic drive assignment is enabled, disable it:
storage disk option modify -node node_name -autoassign off
You must disable automatic drive assignment on both controller modules.
2.
Properly ground yourself.
3.
Identify the failed disk drive or carrier from the system console warning message and the
illuminated fault LED on the disk drive or carrier.
4.
If you are replacing a disk carrier in a DS4486 disk shelf, verify that the data evacuation is
complete and it is safe to remove the disk carrier; otherwise, go to the next step.
When the data evacuation has been completed and it is safe to remove a disk carrier, the
amber LED on the faulted disk carrier is solid (no longer blinking) and a console error
message appears telling you it is safe to remove the disk carrier.
5.
Press the release button on the disk drive or carrier face.
Depending on the disk shelf model, the disk drives or carriers have the release button located
at the top or on the left of the disk drive or carrier face.
For example, the following illustration shows a disk drive with the release button located on
the left of the disk drive or carrier face:
6.0TB
6.0TB
6.0TB
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Replacing disk shelf components
