Users Guide
Viewing drive details
To view the list of drives in the storage sled, click Hardware > Hard Drives. You can assign individual hard drive to a compute sleds. You can
update rmware of these drives using iDRAC web interface.
Current Mode—Indicates if the hard drive is assigned to an enclosure or to a single compute node slot.
• Enclosure-Assigned—In this mode, you can assign an entire storage sled to one or more compute node slot.
NOTE: You cannot assign storage when a redundant SAS IOM setup is temporarily degraded to non-redundant state.
NOTE: The storage enclosure is assigned to the slots of the compute slots and not to the sled itself. If a compute sled is
replaced with another sled on the same slot, then the storage enclosure gets assigned to the new sled automatically.
However, if you move the compute sled from one slot to another, you must remap the storage to that sled.
• Drive-Assigned—In this mode, you can select a hard drive slot and assign it to a compute node slot.
CAUTION: Assigning a hard drive to a compute node slot may result in loss of data.
Assigning drives to a compute sled
Using the Drive-Assigned mode, you can map the drives in a storage enclosure to a compute sled slot. If the compute sled fails, the drive
remains assigned to the slot. If the sled is moved to another slot on the chassis, reassign the drives to the new slot. To congure RAID on
the drives, use the iDRAC web interface, a server conguration prole, or an operating system deployment script, after the drive
assignment is complete.
CAUTION
: Before you assign a drive to a slot, ensure that the data from the drive is backed up.
NOTE: The HBA330 controller card does not set a status for the hard drives when the hard drives are removed from the storage
sleds after the hard drives are assigned to compute sleds.
To assign a drive:
1 From the Devices drop-down, select Storage.
2 Select the storage sled from the list of the storage devices.
3 Click View Details.
The storage Overview page is displayed.
4 Click Hardware.
The drive list is displayed.
NOTE
: Ensure that the Drive-Assigned mode is selected.
5 Select one or more drives and click Assign Drive to Slot.
The Assign Hard Drive to Compute page is displayed.
6 Select the slot and click Assign.
When a drive is reassigned from one compute sled to another, the enclosure status and spin-up state of the drive is the same. If a
drive is in power-savings mode, the status of the drive is displayed as "starting".
Assigning storage enclosure to a compute sled
Using the Enclosure-Assigned mode you can assign a storage enclosure to one or more compute sleds with HBA330 mini-mezzanine
adapter. Using this mode, you can also assign a storage enclosure to an empty slot. If the sled is removed and installed to another slot the
assignment must be performed again.
CAUTION
: Before you assign an enclosure to a slot, ensure that the data from the drive is backed up.
NOTE: Systems with H745P MX controller only support a single storage enclosure mapping.
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