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The Infoblox TE-1506 appliance ships with one solid-state drive (SSD). When you replace a failed drive, you must replace it with an Infoblox supplied drive. To ensure that you receive the correct replacement drive, report the drive type or part number of the failed drive. The appliance also displays the drive type in the Detailed Status panel of the Grid Manager.

  • Caution: Installing drives that are not qualified and shipped from Infoblox could cause failures in the appliance.

You can access the drive from the front of the appliance. The drive weighs about 2 pounds (0.90 kg). You can remove or replace a defective drive without interrupting appliance operations or network services.

  • Caution: Never remove a correctly functioning drive in a live system.

To remove the disk drive:

  1. Identify and verify the failed drive through the Grid Manager or the CLI.

  2. Press the release button to release the catch-release lever.

  3. Use the catch-release lever to pull the disk about two cm (one inch) to disengage contact, as indicated in the figure below.

  4. Wait about 30 seconds for the drive to completely stop spinning.

  5. Remove the drive, extract it from its carrier and handle it with care. Do not drop the drive or ship it loosely in a carton.

  6. Securely mount the replacement drive in the drive carrier and replace the carrier in the system.

  7. Push the lever down to lock the drive in place.
    The LED next to the drive lights up.

  8. The drive automatically goes into rebuilds mode.

Note: IP settings and basic network configurations, such as the gateway address, netmask, Grid secret and Grid name, are saved and restored when you replace a failed drive.

Notes on Drive Replacement

NIOS saves and restores IP settings and basic network configurations, such as the gateway address, netmask, Grid secret and Grid name, when you replace a failed drive. The replaceable solid-state drive contains only user data.
Should the solid-state drive in an appliance stop working for any reason, and the appliance is part of an HA pair, it will come offline, and its HA partner system comes online. If the drive has an issue and is replaced, NIOS within the downed system detects the new drive and initializes it for NIOS usage.
If the appliance runs on an Infoblox Grid, the system then communicates with the current Grid Master, downloads any remaining configuration, and then automatically rejoins the Grid. In most cases, recovery within an HA pair and in the Grid takes only a few minutes after the drive is replaced.
If the appliance runs in stand-alone mode without failover, a backup of the user data must be restored, or the system configured from scratch. Infoblox recommends regular backups of standalone appliance data. Consult the Backing Up and Restoring Configuration Files topic in the NIOS online documentation for your system.

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