Sun Oracle Fire X4440, Service Manual

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3-2 Sun Fire X4440 Server Service Manual • September 2010
In the Sun Fire X4440, only drives are hot-pluggable. To hot-plug a drive you must
take the drive offline (to prevent any applications from accessing it, and to remove
the logical software links to it) before you can safely remove it. See
Section 3.2,
“Servicing Drives” on page 3-2 .
3.1.2 Hot-Swappable Devices
Hot-swappable devices can be removed and installed while the server is running
without affecting the rest of the server’s capabilities.
In the Sun Fire X4440, the following devices are hot-swappable:
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Fan modules. See Section 3.5, “Servicing Fan Modules” on page 3-10 .
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Power supplies. See Section 3.6, “Servicing Power Supplies” on page 3-16 .
Note – The chassis-mounted drives can be hot-swappable, depending on how they
are configured. See Section 3.2, “Servicing Drives” on page 3-2 .
3.2 Servicing Drives
The following topics are covered:
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Section 3.2.1, “Sun Fire X4440 Server Drive Guidelines” on page 3-2
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Section 3.2.2, “Drive Status LED Reference” on page 3-3
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Section 3.2.3, “Removing a Drive” on page 3-4
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Section 3.2.4, “Installing a Drive” on page 3-6
Note – CRU : This customer-replaceable unit can be replaced by anyone.
3.2.1 Sun Fire X4440 Server Drive Guidelines
TABLE 3-1
shows physical drive locations for a Sun Fire X4440 server with 8 drives.