Replacing a hot-swap hard disk drive on an IBM X3650 M3 Server

T-Blog Editor/ November 14, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

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By Tekmart Support Team

Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server.

Figure 1. Hot-swap hard disk drive installation

To install a drive in a hot-swap bay, complete the following steps.

Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 10 minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each bay.

Procedure

1. Orient the drive as shown in the illustration.
2. Make sure that the tray handle is open.
3. Align the drive assembly with the guide rails in the bay.
4. Gently push the drive assembly into the bay until the drive stops.
5. Push the tray handle to the closed (locked) position.
6. If the system is turned on, check the hard disk drive status LED to verify that the hard disk drive is operating correctly.
7. Note: If the server is configured for RAID operation using a ServeRAID adapter, you might have to reconfigure your disk arrays after you install hard disk drives.

Results

After you replace a failed hard disk drive, the green activity LED flashes as the disk spins up. The amber LED turns off after approximately 1 minute. If the new drive starts to rebuild, the amber LED flashes slowly, and the green activity LED remains lit during the rebuild process. If the amber LED remains lit, you may have Hard disk drive problems.

Note: You might have to reconfigure the disk arrays after you install hard disk drives.