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HotSwap HD PowerEdge T310

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Hi reddit!

My power edge T310 host 3 VM, i have an HD failure and allready proceed to order and receive the substitutional HD. It run with CITRIX XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2 (build 47008).

I would know if it's possible to hotswap o i need to shutdown VMs and the server for the operation!

TY in advice

Posted May 16, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

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You can hot swap so long as your chassis is configured with removable drives and not internal cabled drives. If you have an iDRAC, you can login into that to confirm the new drive registers and starts rebuilding your RAID array correctly.

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