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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
Installing a Hard Drive into a Drive Carrier
1.
Insert a drive into the carrier with the PCB side facing down and the connector end
toward the rear of the carrier.
2.
Align the drive in the carrier so that the screw holes of both line up. Note that there are
holes in the carrier marked “SATA” to aid in correct installation.
3.
Secure the drive to the carrier with four screws.
4.
Insert the drive carrier into its bay, keeping the carrier oriented so that the hard drive
is on the top of the carrier and the release button is on the right side. When the carrier
reaches the rear of the bay, the release handle will retract.
5. Push the handle in until it clicks into its locked position.
Note:
Your operating system must have RAID support to enable the hot-plug capability of
the hard drives.
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the X12DPFR-AN6 web page at
www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SBB-HDDCompList.pdf
Hot-Swap for NVMe Drives
Supermicro servers support NVMe surprise hot-swap. For even better data security, NVMe
orderly
hot-swap is recommended. NVMe drives can be ejected and replaced remotely using
BMC.
Note
: If you are using VROC, see the VROC appendix in this manual instead.
Ejecting a Drive
1.
BMC > Server Health > NVMe SSD
2.
Select Device, Group and Slot, and click
Eject
.
After ejecting, the drive Status LED
indicator turns green.
3.
Remove the drive.
Note that
Device
and
Group
are categorized by the CPLD design architecture. The
F610P2-RTN server has one Device and one Group.
Slot
is the slot number on which the NVMe drives are mounted.
