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SnapScale/RAINcloudOS 4.1 Administrator’s Guide
5 – Storage Options
Drive Installation
NOTE: Do not remove the disk drives from their carriers. Doing so voids the drive warranty. Unless
adding drives to an Uninitialized nodes, the cluster must be up and fully operational.
Install the drives into the available slots:
1.
Remove the
blank drive carriers
from the slots that will be used for the new drives
(leaving the remaining blank carriers in place).
2.
Positioning a
drive carrier
in front of the appropriate
bay
:
•
For the
X2
node, slide it in until the
latch
clicks, locking the assembly in the bay.
•
For the
X4
node, slide it in until it stops and then close the
latch
to lock it in place.
3.
for
each
remaining drive carrier being installed.
IMPORTANT: To maintain proper airflow and cooling, a drive carrier or a blank carrier must be
installed in
every
slot. No empty slots are allowed.
X4 Node
X2 Node
