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## Remove a SAS PCIe RAID HBA Card

Note - This is a cold service procedure that can be performed by customers. See Cold Service, Replaceable by Customer for more information about cold service procedures.

| Caution - This procedure involves handling circuit boards that are extremely sensitive to static electricity. Ensure that you follow ESD preventative practices to avoid damaging the circuit boards.

| Caution - Components inside the chassis might be hot. Use caution when servicing components inside the chassis.

1. Extend the server to the maintenance position.

   See Extend the Server.

2. Remove the top cover.

   See Remove the Top Cover.

3. Attach an antistatic wrist strap.
4. Disconnect the data cables from the card.

   Note - If the riser has cards installed in both slots, disconnect all cables connected to both cards.

   Tip - Label the cables to ensure proper connection to the replacement card.

5. Remove the riser that contains the card.

   See Remove a PCIe or PCIe/XAUI Riser

6. With the riser placed on an antistatic surface, disengage the card from its connector and place it on an antistatic surface.
7. If you are not replacing the card, install a PCIe filler panel in the slot.

   | Caution - To ensure proper system cooling and EMI shielding, you must use the appropriate PCIe filler panel for the server.

8. If your system has a sixteen-disk capable backplane and you are planning to use the onboard RAID controllers instead of the PCIe RAID HBA, you must partition the backplane into two eight disk zones.

   Creating these zones requires that you have use of the `zoningcli` command, which is available as part of the Oracle Hardware Management Pack 2.1.1 software. You can download and install this software from this location:

   http://www.oracle.com/us/support/044752.html

   Note - Version 2.1.1 is the earliest Hardware Management Pack release that supports SPARC T3 series servers.

   For more information on zoning in sixteen-disk backplane configurations, see the “Configuring Hardware RAID” discussion in the SPARC T3 Series Servers Administration Guide.

9. When you have installed the Hardware Management Pack software, use the `zoningcli` command to enable zoning.

       # zoningcli enable zoning

   The required zones are now enabled, allowing you to use the two onboard SAS RAID controllers to manage the disk drives in a sixteen-disk capable backplane.

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- Install a SAS PCIe RAID HBA Card

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