Specifications

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Access the Solid State Drive (SSD)

A 32GB Solid State Drive (SSD) is shipped with the system, as well as being separately orderable. The

SSD acts as an external flash and is accessed as

slot0: on the Z9000. The SSD contents are viewed and

managed through the CLI, similarly to that of the Flash drives

The SSD is field replaceable, supporting drives that use 12 Volts and/or 5.0 Volts. Be sure to use only

drives supported by Dell Force10 Networks.

NOTE: The SSD cannot be hot-swapped. The system requires a reboot to recognize a new or reseated SSD.

Figure 7-3. SSD Drive

Install an SSD.

Included here are some key commands, but not all of the commands supported by the SSD. Refer to the

Z9000 Command Line Reference Guide for a complete discussion of the commands supported by the

SSD.

View files on the SSD

Use the dir slot0: command to view files on the SSD.

Force10#dir slot0:

Directory of flash:

1 drw- 32768 Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 .

2 drwx 512 Jul 23 2007 00:38:44 ..

Step Task

Shut down the system. The SSD cannot be hot swapped and the system must be rebooted to

recognize a new or reseated SSD.

Take the SSD out of the shipping box.

Using the grab handle, slide the SSD into the slot.

Restart the system.

SSD

Handle