Disk drives are not preconfigured before they ship from the factory. During the initial
installation any drive can be placed into any slot for a full storage shelf. After the
compute nodes and storage shelves are configured and operational, you cannot
rearrange the drives.
The compute nodes support storage shelves with half of the total usable capacity.
This configuration includes 45 disk drives and 39 blank carriers. You receive one
container of 42 disk drives and another container of 3 drives and 39 blanks. Install
these disk drives into the storage shelf drawers.
Refer to the following link for the disk drive layout for a half capacity storage shelf.
See
“Installing disk drives and blanks into a half-capacity storage shelf”
on page 43.
Each disk drive is encased in a carrier. A label on the top of the carrier identifies
the storage capacity of the disk that is inside the carrier.
A blank carrier is very similar to a disk drive carrier. The upper latch assembly is
the same. A label identifies the carrier as a blank instead of storage capacity.
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Hardware overview
5U84 storage shelf drawers and disk drives
