010-151 · Question #38
Which three components are hot swappable in a Cisco UCS Blade Server and Chassis? (Choose three.)
The correct answer is A. Fabric Extender B. Power supply D. SAS Hard Drive. Cisco UCS blade server chassis supports hot-swap replacement of specific field-replaceable units without requiring system downtime. The Fabric Extender, power supply, and SAS hard drives are the components designed for live replacement.
Question
Which three components are hot swappable in a Cisco UCS Blade Server and Chassis? (Choose three.)
Options
- AFabric Extender
- BPower supply
- CHeat sink
- DSAS Hard Drive
- E2x8GB Kit DIMMs
- FMezzanine card
How the community answered
(56 responses)- A80% (45)
- C4% (2)
- E5% (3)
- F11% (6)
Why each option
Cisco UCS blade server chassis supports hot-swap replacement of specific field-replaceable units without requiring system downtime. The Fabric Extender, power supply, and SAS hard drives are the components designed for live replacement.
Fabric Extenders in the UCS 5108 chassis are engineered as hot-swappable I/O modules. They can be removed and reinserted while other blade modules continue operating, as the chassis backplane maintains connectivity to unaffected blades.
UCS chassis power supplies are designed with N+1 redundancy and are fully hot-swappable FRUs. Swapping a power supply during operation does not interrupt power delivery to the remaining blades in the chassis.
Heat sinks are passive cooling components physically press-fitted to CPUs and require the blade to be fully removed and disassembled before they can be accessed or replaced.
SAS hard drives in Cisco UCS blade servers support hot-swap at the drive carrier level. They can be physically replaced while the blade is powered on and are typically deployed in RAID configurations to maintain data availability during the swap.
DIMMs require the server to be completely powered off before replacement because the memory controller cannot safely relinquish live DIMM slots, and forced removal risks data corruption or system faults.
Mezzanine cards are connected directly to the blade motherboard via a dedicated expansion slot and require the blade to be powered down and removed from the chassis before the card can be safely seated or removed.
Concept tested: Cisco UCS hot-swappable field-replaceable unit identification
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/chassis/install/ucs-5108-chassis-install-guide.html
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