Storage Drive Failure and RAID
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The drive provides the operating system, and the operating system is not mirrored on
another drive.
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The drive cannot be logically isolated from the online operations of the server.
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The operating system does not support hot plug for the drive.
If any of these disk drive conditions are true, then you must shut down the system before you
replace the drive. See “Powering Down the Server” on page 55.
Note - Replacing a drive does not require removing the server from a rack.
Related Information
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“Storage Drive Status Indicators” on page 33
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“Removing and Replacing a Storage Drive” on page 71
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“Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Oracle Solaris” on page 76
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“Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Oracle Linux” on page 79
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“Removing and Replacing an NVMe Storage Drive Using Microsoft Windows
Server” on page 83
Storage Drive Failure and RAID
A single storage drive failure does not cause a data failure if the storage drives are configured
as a mirrored RAID 1 volume (optional). The storage drive can be removed, and when a new
storage drive is inserted, the contents are automatically rebuilt from the rest of the array with no
need to reconfigure the RAID parameters. If the replaced storage drive was configured as a hot-
spare, the new HDD is automatically configured as a new hot-spare.
For information about the implementation of RAID on this server, refer to “Configuring Storage
Drives for Operating System Installation” in Oracle Servers X8-2 and X8-2L Installation Guide.
Storage Drive Locations and Numbering
The following illustration shows the location of the drives and the internal system software
designations for the drives. For information on storage drive status indicators (LEDs), see
“Storage Drive Status Indicators” on page 33.
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