Sparc S7-2L, Service Manual

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Servicing Drives
The server provides several configurations of available drives, depending on the drive
backplane and supporting PCIe cards in that model.
Drives Interface support Links
Eight 2.5-inch drives in the
front. Four can be NVMe
drives.
SAS card in internal
PCIe slot 7. NVMe
drives supported by the
motherboard interface.
Twelve 3.5-inch SAS drives
in the front. Two 2.5-inch
SAS drives in the rear.
Backplane expander card.
Twenty-four 2.5-inch drives
in the front. Four can be
NVMe drives. Two 2.5-inch
SAS drives in the rear.
Backplane expander card.
NVMe drives supported by
the motherboard interface.
Twelve 2.5-inch NVMe
drives in the front.
Motherboard interface, and
three NVMe switch cards in
PCIe slots x,x,x.
Drives can be removed and installed while the server is running. This feature, referred to as
being hot-serviceable , depends on how the drives are configured.
Note -
The server supports traditional, disk-based storage devices and Flash SSDs, which
are diskless storage devices based on solid-state memory. The server also can support NVMe
drives. Either type of drive can be a boot device. The term “drive” is used in a generic sense to
refer to all three types of internal storage devices.
These topics explain how to service drives.
■
“Drive LEDs” on page 66
■
“Determine Which Drive Is Faulty” on page 67
■
“Remove a Drive or Drive Filler” on page 68
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