White Paper

November 1999

11DT-119A-WWEN

Prepared by Storage Products

Division

Compaq Computer Corporation

Contents

Rapid Recovery with Hot-

Plug Drives .................................3

Guidelines when hot-

plugging a drive ........................3

Guidelines when Insight

Manager indicates that a

drive is degraded and should

be replaced...............................4

Conclusion .................................6

Hot-Plug Disk Drive Removal

and Replacement Guidelines for

Compaq Smart Array

Controllers

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to communicate to customers

the guidelines for implementing hot-plug removal and replacement

of hard drives when using Compaq Smart Array Controllers.

Compaq is fully committed to providing the ideal client/server high

availability solution for customers. High availability features in

Compaq Smart Array Controllers include hot-pluggable hard drives.

With hot-pluggable hard drives, customers can remove and replace

one or several drives within a server while the system is online for

rapid recovery while minimizing interruption of the network.

In order to maximize high availability, Compaq has issued customer

guidelines on extending and implementing the removal and

replacement of hot-pluggable hard drives.

Compaq 6400R Hot Plug Disk Drive Removal and Replacement Guidelines for Compaq

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