we recently bought a dell 730xd's and I am wondering if raid controller does not support hot swappable. upon checking it Doesn't seem to support hot plugging. So if we need to add or replace a drive, the server will need to be shut down. Am I getting this right or something that I miss? Any help please.
What PERC controller you have on the server? Physical Disks on PowerEdge R730xd are hot swappable. If drive is online it is recommended to make drive offline first before hot swapping the drive. You can refer below link with more details on this
thank you for replying, I updated the controller firmware and that solves it. If I may ask a different question regarding RAID, can the RAID expand or I need to add another raid controller to add another RAID as another storage?
Please take a look into the user manual of your H730 and search for online capacity expansion (OCP), There are a few requirements but in general it possible to expand a diskgroup with a single VD.
PERCs supports hot swapping drives since ages for the standard front backplane. If youre 730XD have the additional drive bay than iam not sure because i have in mind that it have "blue" handles which indicated cold swap.... everything which is orange can be hot swapped.
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What PERC controller you have on the server? Physical Disks on PowerEdge R730xd are hot swappable. If drive is online it is recommended to make drive offline first before hot swapping the drive. You can refer below link with more details on this
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000143539/poweredge-hdd-how-to-physically-replace-an-hdd-hot-swap-procedure