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Can I just insert replacement New Hard Drive back into Raid 1 after taking Dead Drive out on IBM x3650

Hi,

I have a IBM x3650 with 2 SATA 1TB HDD running on an ServeRaid 8K in Raid 1

I have Vmware ESXi 4,.1 free Edition on it running 2 VM, one being a Windows 2003 SBS Server and the other a very Small Linux box that is not turned on at the moment.

We had a HDD that died in the Raid 1 and we have got the replacement and ready to put it back in the system.

My Question is:

Does the Machine have to be turned off to insert new HDD back in.

If it does not do i have to at least turn the VM off or is it good practice.

Do I have to go into the Raid Management at BIOS level and start Sync or will it just start.

Any other things you can think of that I need to do

Thanks Adam
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Hello,

Its better to ask your vendor to send engineer and get this disk replaced.
You have hot-swapable disk so no issues just replace the disk and you have done. But some times replacing the disk does not start rebuilding of raid so you have to initiate it from the RAID managment console which is in BIOS.  

your answers are :
1) Does the Machine have to be turned off to insert new HDD back in. Its not required but for safer side keep them power off mode while doing replacement.

2) If it does not do i have to at least turn the VM off or is it good practice. same as point 1

3) Do I have to go into the Raid Management at BIOS level and start Sync or will it just start. to check the RIAD status you have to go into the BIOS, some times RAID Rebuild does not start automatically. Then you have to initiate it from the BIOS RAID management.

4) Any other things you can think of that I need to do. Take backup of VM's running on it. Its will save data as well as your time in case of disaster.

read below link for hardware information.



http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systemx/documentation/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sysx.5460.doc/r_configuring_server.html
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