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Lenovo Converged HX Series Hardware Replacement Guide

Replace an HBA card*:

*NOTE: The HX1320, HX2320-E, and HX3320 each contain only one HBA adapter.

Table 5. HBA options

HX1320 and HX2320-E

ThinkSystem 430-8i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA

HX3320

ThinkSystem 430-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA

Shut down the node by following the hypervisor specific Node Shutdown procedure described in the

Nutanix Hardware Replacement Documentation.

Power off the node and if the cable management arm is not in place, disconnect all the. Pull the node

chassis out of the rack.

Remove the top cover as described in the Removing the top cover procedure in the ThinkSystem

Information Center.

Replace the failed HBA adapter using procedures from the ThinkSystem Information Center:

• For all appliances, the HBA adapter is installed on the system motherboard. It is replaced using the

RAID adapter replacement procedure.

Replace the top cover as described in the Replacing the top cover procedure in the ThinkSystem

Information Center.

Push the node chassis back into the rack and reconnect the cables as necessary. Power on the node.

Verify that the HBA is successfully replaced:

• Amber warning light on the server is off.

• The controller VM starts and all of the drives are shown as online (4 for the HX1320, 8 for the HX2320-

E, and 10 or 12 for the HX3320). If the Controller VM does not boot, verify the LSI HBA card is

detected using the lspci command:

root@host lspci | grep –i SAS3408

00:05.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS3408 Fusion-

MPT Tri-Mode I/O Controller Chip (IOC) (rev 01)

• If the LSI HBA card is not present, ensure the card is properly connected. If the card is still not

detected, contact Lenovo support.

• If the system fails to boot from the boot drive after replacing the HBA, verify the option ROM is turned

off for the HBA adapter using the “Disable option ROMs” procedure on page 22.

Start the node by following the hypervisor specific Node Start procedure described in the Nutanix Hardware

Replacement Documentation.

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