HP DL380 G6 hot swapping hdd

GodAtum · 30 Apr 2015 at 10:13

I have 4 hard drives (300GB each) with 1 failed. It is running Win Server 2008 which sees two 300GB hard drives. Unfortuantely I cannot shut it down to see what RAID it has but I guess x2 RAID1.

I assume I can hot-swap the failed drive without Windows going crazy?

nutcase · 30 Apr 2015 at 21:19

Has it got the HP tools installed on it? Smart Storage Administrator will tell you what drives are doing what, and what controller is in there.

Then you can work out if hot swapping is an option.

#Chri5# · 30 Apr 2015 at 21:43

On a G6 ProLiant, the RAID tools might be the older Array Configuration Utility (ACU). Either way, if ACU or SSA isn't installed, grab it from HP.com and install before pulling drives.

nutcase · 1 May 2015 at 08:43

True - although SSA replaces it (I had it on my G6 but I needed SSA to use large drives).

GodAtum · 1 May 2015 at 09:41

Thanks. It's a P410i with 2 logical drives and 4 data drives. I suppose that's fine to hot-swap and let it rebuild automatically?