Replacing Hard Drives Or Solid State Drives; Drive Population Guidelines; Hdd4 Hdd5; Hdd1 Hdd2 - Cisco UCS C220 Installation And Service Manual
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Installing or Replacing Server Components
Replacing Hard Drives or Solid State Drives
This section includes the following information:
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Drive Population Guidelines
The server has two different drive backplane options:
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The drive-bay numbering is shown in
Figure 3-6
Figure 3-7
Observe these drive population guidelines for optimum performance:
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Cisco UCS C220 Server Installation and Service Guide
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Drive Population Guidelines, page 3-12
Drive Replacement Procedure, page 3-13
The Small Form Factor drives version can hold up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives.
The Large Form Factor drives version can hold up to four 3.5-inch hard drives.
Drive Numbering, Small Form Factor
HDD4
HDD5
Drive Numbering, Large Form Factor
HDD1
When populating drives, add drives to the lowest-numbered bays first.
Keep an empty drive blanking tray in any unused bays to ensure proper air flow.
You can mix hard drives and SSDs in the same server (the LFF version of the server does not support
SSDs). However, You cannot configure a logical volume (virtual drive) that contains a mix of hard
drives and SSDs. That is, when you create a logical volume, it must contain all hard drives or all
SSDs.
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3-6.
HDD1
HDD6
HDD2
HDD3
Chapter 3
Maintaining the Server
HDD2
HDD3
HDD7
HDD8
HDD4
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