Chapter 5
Replace Brick Spare Disk Drives
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Insert a Brick Spare Disk Drive
Only factory-fresh, Pillar Data Systems-supplied disk drives
are supported in Axiom systems. These disk drives have a
unique identifier that marks the drive as a Pillar Data Systems
disk drive. The process of writing this identifier to the physical
disk drive is called branding. If the disk drive is unbranded,
the Axiom system rejects it.
After you insert this FRU into a Brick control unit (CU), use
Guided Maintenance to complete the replacement procedure.
Important!
If Guided Maintenance encounters a problem at
this stage, you must contact Technical Support to continue
Guided Maintenance for this FRU.
When the FRU replacement process is complete, the Axiom
system reports the status of the FRU.
After Guided Maintenance successfully validates the disk
drive replacement, the drive is bound to that Brick.
Important!
The capacity of the disk drive replacement must
be equal to or greater than that of the other drives in the
Brick.
To insert a spare disk drive:
1 Slide the replacement spare disk drive into the Brick
chassis and push the disk drive into place.
2 Lift up the locking tabs to engage the spare disk drive
with the Brick midplane.