
Chapter 5
Replace Brick Disk Drives
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Remove a Brick Disk Drive
To help you identify the target Brick that has the FRU that
needs to be replaced, Guided Maintenance beacons the
bezel LEDs on the target Brick. If you choose Reverse
Identify in the GUI, Guided Maintenance beacons the LEDs
on all Bricks except for the target Brick.
After you click the Prepare System button in the GUI, Guided
Maintenance prepares the system for replacement of the
target FRU:
• If the array disk drive is in a normal state and the spare
disk drive is available, the system copies all data from the
disk drive to the spare.
• If the array disk drive is in a normal state and the spare
disk drive is not available, Guided Maintenance
terminates.
Note: Disk drive replacement cannot occur until the
spare disk drive is made available.
• If the array disk drive is in a rebuild state, Guided
Maintenance waits for the rebuild operation to complete.
• If the array disk drive is in a degraded or failed state,
Guided Maintenance continues.
After the system is prepared, Guided Maintenance displays a
completion message and enables the Next button
Important!
Make sure that you remove the correct disk
drive. Removal of the incorrect disk drive can disrupt data
access.