Installing an SFF hot-plug drive

CAUTION:

To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, do not operate the rack unless all device bays are populated with either a component or a blank.

Prerequisites

Before you perform this procedure:

Verify that the SFF hot-plug drive cage is installed.
Make sure that you have the SFF hot-plug drive option is available.
If you are installing an SFF hot-plug SAS drive or SSD, make sure that the redundant fan option kit is installed.

Procedure

Open the front bezel.
Remove the drive blank.
Prepare the drive.
Install the SFF drive.
If a hot-plug drive is installed into an empty backplane after the initial boot, reboot the system to get optimal ventilation.
Determine the status of the drive from the drive LED definitions.
Close the front bezel.

The installation is complete.

To configure arrays, see the HPE Smart Array SR Gen10 Configuration Guide at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.