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swap

The installation of a replacement unit in place of a defective unit in a system.

Units are any parts of a system that may either be field replaceable (FRUs) by a vendor service representative or consumer replaceable (CRUs). A physical swap operation may be cold, warm, or hot, depending on the state in which the disk subsystem must be in order to perform it. A functional swap operation may be an auto swap or it may require human intervention.

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