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How to tell if I can hot swap a drive labeled as "Ready" in dellmgr
When I run dellmgr from a Linux server, and look at the properties for one of the physical drives that is flashing red, it says "failure threshold exceeded" for the drive. It says it's in the Ready state on the main screen. My server didn't go down and I never lost data, so it must have been RAID5 with an online spare that kicked in. I have a PERC4. Since that drive says Ready, could I pull it out while the server is running and replace it, then go back into dellmgr and set it as a hot spare?
Or do I need to power it down to do this. It's RHEL4 for the OS if that matters.
Siget
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September 24th, 2009 12:00
rjo98
the os doesnt matter for swaping out HDD, if the system has hotplugable HDD then you can swap the HDD without taking the server down. then go into the dellmgr and set that drive as your hotspare and you should be good to gol.
rjo98
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September 24th, 2009 12:00
Is there a way I can confirm that the drives are hot swappable? I'm sure they are, but I didn't buy them so can't say for 100% sure.
at5147
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September 24th, 2009 13:00
If its an 80-pin drive on a backplane, then its hotswappable.
rjo98
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September 24th, 2009 13:00
It's a 146GB drive in an external array, so I think i should be all set, right?
Dev Mgr
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September 27th, 2009 20:00
What do you mean with an "external array"? Do you mean a PowerVault 220S? If so, yes, you can hotswap (as it uses an SCA-80 based backplane).
rjo98
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September 28th, 2009 07:00
It is a PowerVault 220s, wow, you're good!!
rjo98
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September 29th, 2009 09:00
That worked like a charm, thanks to everyone who talked me off the ledge :emotion-2: