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The Front View

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1. Power button

The main power switch applies or removes primary power from the power supply to the server but maintains standby power. Unplug the appliance before servicing.

2. Reset Button

Reboots the system.

3. Power LED

Steady on

Power on

Blinking at 4 Hz

Checking BIOS/BMC integrity

Blinking at 4Hz and "i" LED is blue

BIOS firmware updating

Two blinks at 4 Hz, one pause 2 Hz and "i" LED blue

BMC firmware updating

Blinking at 1 Hz and "i" LED red

Fault detected

4. LAN 1 LED

Indicates network activity on a LAN when flashing; defaults to the first two ports of CPU1 AIOM.

5. Power Failure LED

Indicates a power supply module has failed.

6. HDD Activity LED

Indicates activity on the hard drive when flashing.

7. LAN 2 LED

Indicates network activity on a LAN when flashing; defaults to the first two ports of CPU1 AIOM.

8. Information LED

Alerts operator to several states:

Red, solid

An overheat condition has occurred

Red, blinking at 1 Hz

Fan failure, check for an inoperative fan

Red, blinking at 0.25 Hz

Power failure, check for a non-operational power supply

Red, solid, with Power LED blinking green

Fault detected

Blue and red, blinking at 10 Hz

Recovery mode

Blue, solid

UID has been activated locally to locate the server in a rack environment

Blue, blinking at 1 Hz

UID has been activated using the BMC to locate the server in a rack environment

Blue, blinking at 2 Hz

BMC is resetting

Blue, blinking at 4 Hz

BMC is setting factory defaults

Blue, blinking at 10 Hz with Power LED blinking green

BMC/BIOS firmware is updating

9. Drive Device LED

Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator.

10. Drive Device LED

Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator.

Drive Carrier LED Indicators

The chassis includes externally accessible SAS/SATA drives.

Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. For RAID configurations using a controller, the meaning of the status indicator is described in the table below.

LED Type

Color

Blinking Pattern

Meaning of Blinking Pattern

Activity LED

Blue

Solid On

Idle SAS/NVMe drive installed.

Blinking

I/O activity.

Off

Idle SATA drive installed.

Status LED

Red

Solid On

Failure of drive with RSTe support.

Blinking at 1 Hz

Rebuild drive with RSTe support.

On for five seconds, then off

Power on for drive with RSTe support.

Blinking at 4 Hz

Identify drive with RSTe support.

Green

Solid Green LED

Safe to remove NVMe device.

Amber

Blinking at 1 Hz

Do not remove NVMe device.

Chassis

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  1. Disk Drive Carrier: Each carrier can house a hot-swappable disk drive. A drive slot map displays the disk slot numbers on top of the appliance.

  2. Handle Release: Press this tab to release the handle. Use the handle to pull the disk drive carrier from the chassis.