Adding a Drive

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Adding a Drive
If you have a hot swap bay or an enclosure with removable trays, you can add a drive to your system and make it available through 3DM2 without powering down the system.
Without hot swap bays, you should not add a drive via 3DM2. Instead, power down the system and add the applicable drives.

| Warning: Physically adding a drive without using a hot swap bay and without powering down your system can result in a system hang or may even damage the system and the drive.

| Note: When you add a drive to your system and connect it to the controller, it is automatically detected and listed in 3DM2. If it does not immediately display, or if it is part of a unit, you can use the rescan feature, as described below.

To add a drive

1 | Insert the drive into the hot swap bay or into your enclosure.

For details, refer to the documentation for your enclosure.

2 | In 3DM2, choose Management >> Maintenance.

3 | On the Maintenance page, click Rescan Controller.

The drive will appear in the list of available drives. You can now use it in a new RAID configuration, as part of an existing configuration, or as a replacement drive in the event that another drive degrades.
If you want to use this drive as a spare, see Creating a Hot Spare.

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