Preparing the ESLS storage enclosure for operation after installing a disk drive or solid-state drive

To prepare the enclosure for operation after you install a disk drive or SSD in the system, complete the steps in this procedure.

Procedure

Ensure that you have the electrostatic discharge (ESD) wrist strap on and that the ESD clip is plugged into a ground jack or connected to an unpainted metal surface. If not, do so now.
Choose from the following options:
- If your system has the power turned off, continue with step 3.
- If your system has the power turned on, continue with step 6.
Reconnect the power cables to the enclosure that contains the slot that you serviced:
1. Replace the power-cable retention brackets.
2. Using your labels, replace the power cables into the power supplies on the disk drive enclosure.
If applicable, close the rack door at the rear of the system.
Start the system. For instructions, see Starting a system.
To configure the newly installed disk drive or SSD, choose one of the following options:
- If the AIX® operating system controls the slot where you installed a new drive, continue with step 7.
- If the IBM® i operating system controls the slot where you installed a new drive, continue with step 10.
- If the Linux® operating system controls the slot where you installed a new drive, continue with step 13.
To use the AIX operating system to configure the drive, choose from the following options:
- If you installed the drive when the system was powered off, when you start the system, the AIX operating system automatically configures the devices in the system when the system is started.
- If you installed the drive when the system was powered on, continue with the next step.
To configure the drive with the AIX operating system when you installed the drive when the system was powered on, complete the following steps:
Note: A customer must complete this step.
1. Press the F3 key on the console to return to the SCSI and SCSI RAID Hot Plug Manager menu.
2. Select Configure Added/Replaced Devices and press Enter.
3. When the configuration is complete, press F3 twice to return to the IBM SAS Disk Array Manager menu.
4. Select List SAS Disk Array Configuration and press Enter. The newly installed drive or drives will be shown at the bottom of the list of arrays and drives.
Continue with step 15.
If you are using the IBM i operating system, choose from the following options:
- If you installed or replaced a non-configured drive, continue with step 11.
- If you installed or replaced a configured drive, continue with step 15.
To use the IBM i operating system to configure the drive, complete the following steps:
1. To display unconfigured drives, complete the following steps:
  1. If necessary, start System Service Tools (SST) by typing strsst on the command line of the IBM i session, and then press Enter.
  2. Type your service tools user ID and service tools password on the Start Service Tools (STRSST) Sign On display, and then press Enter.
    The service tools password is case-sensitive.
  3. Select Work with Disk Units > Display disk configuration > Display non-configured units. The drives that you installed are listed. The serial numbers must match the serial numbers that you recorded (the last four digits).
    Note: The new drives might take up to five minutes to appear in the list. If the drive is not listed, ensure that the drives were installed properly.
  4. Press F12 twice to return to the Work with Disk Units window.
2. Choose from the following options:
  - To configure a new drive with device parity protection, go to step 11.c.
  - To configure a new drive with mirror protection, go to step 11.d.
  - To configure a new drive with hot-spare protection, go to step 11.e.
3. To configure a drive with IBM i device-parity protection, complete the following steps:
  1. Select Work with disk configuration > Work with device parity protection.
  2. Select the type of device-parity you want on the set: RAID-5, RAID-6, or RAID-10. Hot-Spare disk protection can also be selected.
    Note: The following conditions must be met before device-parity starts.
    
    Enough drives must be available to create a new parity set.
    
    All drives in a parity set must be the same capacity with a minimum number of two, three, or four drives (depending on RAID level) and maximum of 32 drives in the resulting parity set.
    
    All drives that are attached to an advanced function input/output adapter must be recognized by the system. If not, repeat this step (a-c).
  3. After the conditions are met and device-parity is started, press F12 twice to return to the Work with Disk Units display.
  4. If you have an attached printer, print the configuration list. From the Hardware service manager menu, press F6 (print the configuration). The configuration prints. Save this list for future use.
4. To configure a drive with IBM i mirror-protection, complete the following steps:
  1. Select Work with disk configuration.
  2. Select the option to Add units to auxiliary storage pools (ASPs) and to balance data.
  3. Specify the number of the ASP to which you want to add the drive, and then press Enter. The system ASP is ASP 1. The Confirm Add Units display shows the configuration in your system when the add operation completes.
    Note: If you selected the wrong ASP, press F12 to change your options.
  4. Press F10 to Confirm Add and Balance. The add process takes several minutes to complete. The balancing of the data between the disks in the ASP might take hours to complete. However, the balancing task runs in the background and you can run normal operations.
    Notes:
    
    If the ASP is mirror protected, drives must be added in pairs of the same capacity.
    
    When one or more pairs of drives are added to a mirrored ASP, they automatically become mirror protected.
    
    To start mirrored protection on an ASP, go to the IBM i Documentation website and select the version of the IBM i operating system you are using. Then, use Search to find the Working with mirrored protection topic.
  5. When the message Selected units have been added successfully is shown, press F3 three times and press Enter to return to the Main menu display.
  6. If you have an attached printer, print the configuration list. From the Hardware service manager menu, press F6 (print the configuration). The configuration prints. Save this list for future use.
5. To configure a drive with IBM i hot-spare protection, complete the following steps:
  1. Select Work with disk configuration > Start hot spare. A list of non-configured disk units that can be a Hot-Spare unit under an IOA are displayed.
  2. Select the disk units that you want to set for a Hot-Spare configuration.
  3. If you have an attached printer, print the configuration list. From the Hardware service manager menu, press F6 (print the configuration). The configuration prints. Save this list for future use.
Continue with step 15.
To use the Linux operating system to configure the drive, choose from the following options:
- If you installed the drive when the system was powered off, when you start the system, the Linux operating system automatically configures the devices in the system when the system is started. Continue with step 15.
- If you installed the drive when the system was powered on, continue with the next step.
To configure the drive with the Linux operating system when you installed the drive when the system was powered on, complete the following steps:
1. Type q to return to the IBM Power RAID Configuration Utility menu.
2. Type 1 and press Enter to select Display hardware status.
  The newly-installed drive or drives is shown at the beginning of the list of drives and arrays.
Verify the installed part.
- If you replaced the part because of a service action, verify the installed part. For instructions, see Verifying a repair.
- If you installed the part for any other reason, verify the installed part. For instructions, see Verifying the installed part.