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IBM Blades
« on: 20 August 2011, 19:31:02 »
How easy is it to replace hard disk on one? The fool with root access The highly competition techy might be asked to replace one!

Never touched blade servers before.... don't even know how to remove them from the Centre  :-[
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« Reply #1 on: 20 August 2011, 19:47:26 »
No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
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« Reply #2 on: 20 August 2011, 19:47:50 »
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How easy is it to replace hard disk on one? The fool with root access The highly competition techy might be asked to replace one!

Never touched blade servers before.... don't even know how to remove them from the Centre  :-[

Are you planning on taking it away with you then  ;D

Seriously, being IBM, i would hope they are easy accessible, hot swappable drives.

So......just unplug the caddy of the drive you want to replace and plug the new caddy(with new drive)  in.

Worth checking with some one else first, but in my IT days years ago......if the disk array was hardware raid....it was pull the old drive out and plug the new one in, and pray it didnt crash  ;D and then went on to rebuild itself  :y
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #3 on: 20 August 2011, 19:49:45 »
No changed one on an IGM blade (we have hardware peeps for such simple tasks, people who do get off their backsides ;D)

Proliant blades and Sun blades are simple, hot swap units, same as their standalone servers of same era, can't imagine IBM would be any different...
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #4 on: 20 August 2011, 19:50:14 »
not sure its the right model but looks fairly straight forward http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00718745/c00718745.pdf
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #5 on: 20 August 2011, 19:50:58 »
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No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
Shouldn't need to shut it down. Being a blade, it'll be Enterprise class, thus 99% likely hot swap.
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« Reply #6 on: 20 August 2011, 19:53:08 »
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No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
Shouldn't need to shut it down. Being a blade, it'll be Enterprise class, thus 99% likely hot swap.

Hm.. our blades were obviously different, then :) You couldn't get at the drives without taking the casing off the blade - and since the blade is the entire server.. I can't imagine Windows would have been too happy with the power being unceremoniously removed as the blade was yanked out :D
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #7 on: 20 August 2011, 19:54:57 »
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No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
Shouldn't need to shut it down. Being a blade, it'll be Enterprise class, thus 99% likely hot swap.

Hm.. our blades were obviously different, then :) You couldn't get at the drives without taking the casing off the blade - and since the blade is the entire server.. I can't imagine Windows would have been too happy with the power being unceremoniously removed as the blade was yanked out :D
What make? Never seen one without hot swap disks...
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #8 on: 20 August 2011, 19:56:49 »
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How easy is it to replace hard disk on one? The fool with root access The highly competition techy might be asked to replace one!

Never touched blade servers before.... don't even know how to remove them from the Centre  :-[

Are you planning on taking it away with you then  ;D



I was assuming it needed to be removed in order to replace HD  :-[

Regarding RAID, i've no idea what the setup is. The genius company I used to work for, decided to sack everyone who knew anything about the systems we ran.

Its now down to 5 people (from 60 at its peak) - I'm the only technical member of staff, so not a good start  ;D


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No changed one on an IGM blade (we have hardware peeps for such simple tasks, people who do get off their backsides ;D)

Proliant blades and Sun blades are simple, hot swap units, same as their standalone servers of same era, can't imagine IBM would be any different...

I might need to see if they have left any manuals around! Did a hot swappable PSU for first time few weeks back.
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« Reply #9 on: 20 August 2011, 19:57:37 »
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No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
Shouldn't need to shut it down. Being a blade, it'll be Enterprise class, thus 99% likely hot swap.

Hm.. our blades were obviously different, then :) You couldn't get at the drives without taking the casing off the blade - and since the blade is the entire server.. I can't imagine Windows would have been too happy with the power being unceremoniously removed as the blade was yanked out :D

Well these blades are running Red Hat, but as the whole service is fubared, the blade can be shutdown  :)
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #10 on: 20 August 2011, 19:58:34 »
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I can't imagine Windows would have been too happy with the power being unceremoniously removed as the blade was yanked out :D
Actually, I bet Windows would cope far better than most other server systems :P
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« Reply #11 on: 20 August 2011, 19:58:39 »
server, without a hot swap disk :-?
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« Reply #12 on: 20 August 2011, 20:00:10 »
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No different to a regular server, at least it wasn't in the blade server we had in the lab at work. Shut the blade down, release it (just like you'd release a drive in a storage array) and slide it out.

From then on it's just a regular PC in a very small case..
Shouldn't need to shut it down. Being a blade, it'll be Enterprise class, thus 99% likely hot swap.

Hm.. our blades were obviously different, then :) You couldn't get at the drives without taking the casing off the blade - and since the blade is the entire server.. I can't imagine Windows would have been too happy with the power being unceremoniously removed as the blade was yanked out :D

Well these blades are running Red Hat, but as the whole service is fubared, the blade can be shutdown  :)
Built properly, a failed HDD shouldn't affect service on a server, unless they are using software mirroring....
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Re: IBM Blades
« Reply #13 on: 20 August 2011, 20:00:49 »
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server, without a hot swap disk :-?
OOF's isn't ::)
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« Reply #14 on: 20 August 2011, 20:02:57 »
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server, without a hot swap disk :-?
OOF's isn't ::)

members , must put the hands in the pocket me thinks ;D :y
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