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Remove the disk, extract it from its carrier and handle it with care. Do not drop the disk or ship it loosely in a carton.
Securely mount the replacement disk in the drive carrier and replace the carrier in the system.
Push the lever down to lock the disk drive in place. The LED next to the disk drive lights up.
The disk drive automatically goes into rebuild mode.
Note: IP settings and basic network configurations, such as the gateway address, netmask, Grid secret and Grid name, are saved and
restored when you replace a failed disk drive.
Disk Array Guidelines
Infoblox designs the disk array to be completely self managed. No maintenance procedures are required for a normally functioning disk
array. Mishandling the disk array can cause an unrecoverable error and result in a failed appliance. Infoblox recommends that you
observe the following guidelines:
Remove only one disk at a time. Do not remove two or more disks from the appliance at the same time.
Removing two or more disks at the same time might result in an appliance failure and require an RMA of the appliance. This rule applies
to both powered and powered down appliances.
If the status of the array is degraded, remove the failed or failing disk drive only. Do not remove an optimally functioning drive.
If your acceptance procedure requires a test of the RAID hot swap feature, remove only one disk drive at a time. You can remove a
second disk only after you replace the first disk and the array completes its rebuilding process.
Do not remove a disk drive if the array is rebuilding. This could result in an appliance failure. Verify the status of the array before
removing a disk drive.
You can hot swap a drive while the appliance remains in production.
Some conditions may require powering down the appliance to replace a failed unit. This normally happens if the RAID controller detects
an error that could damage the array. If you insert a replacement drive into a live array and the controller doesn’t recognize the drive,
power down the appliance.
If you inadvertently remove the wrong disk drive, do not immediately remove the disk drive that you originally intended to remove. Verify
the status of the array and replace the disk drive that you removed earlier before removing another drive. Removing a second drive could
render the appliance inoperable.
All disks in the RAID array should have the same disk type for the array to function properly.
In the unlikely event that two disk drives fail simultaneously and the appliance is still operational, remove and replace the failed disk
drives one at a time.
Rebuild time can vary. The rebuild process takes approximately two hours on an idle appliance. On very busy appliances (over 90%
utilization), the disk rebuild process can take as long as 40 hours. On a Grid Master serving a very large Grid, expect the rebuild process
to take at least 24 hours.
Replace a failed or mismatched disk only with a replacement disk shipped from Infoblox. When you request a replacement disk, report
