Dell SCv3000 - Expansion Enclosure Overview

Item Control/Feature Icon Description
– Blinking green (1s on, 1s o) – System is in safe mode
– Fast blinking green (4x per second) – Firmware is updating
• Solid green – Running normal operation
5 Serial port (micro USB) Used under the supervision of technical support to troubleshoot and support
systems.
6 MGMT port — Ethernet port used for storage system management and access to Storage
Manager.
Two LEDs with the port indicate link status (left LED) and activity status (right
LED):
• Link and activity indicators are o – Not connected to the network
• Link indicator is green – The NIC is connected to a valid network at its
maximum port speed.
• Link indicator is amber – The NIC is connected to a valid network at less than
its maximum port speed.
• Activity indicator is blinking green – Network data is being sent or received.
7 USB port One USB 2.0 connector that is used for SupportAssist diagnostic les when the
storage system is not connected to the Internet.
8 Mini-SAS (ports 1 and 2) Back-end expansion ports 1 and 2. LEDs with the ports indicate connectivity
information between the storage controller and the expansion enclosure:
• Steady green indicates the SAS connection is working properly.
• Steady yellow indicates the SAS connection is not working properly.
9 Mezzanine card
The iSCSI ports on the mezzanine card are either 10 GbE SFP+ ports or 1 GbE/10
GbE RJ45 ports.
The LEDs on the iSCSI ports have the following meanings:
• O – No connectivity
• Steady green, left LED – Link (full speed)
• Steady amber, left LED – Link (degraded speed)
• Blinking green, right LED – Activity
NOTE: The mezzanine card does not support DCB.
Expansion Enclosure Overview
Expansion enclosures allow the data storage capabilities of the SCv3000 and SCv3020 storage system to be expanded beyond the 30
internal drives in the storage system chassis.
• The SCv300 is a 2U expansion enclosure that supports up to 12 3.5‐inch hard drives installed in a four‐column, three-row conguration.
• The SCv320 is a 2U expansion enclosure that supports up to 24 2.5‐inch hard drives installed vertically side by side.
• The SCv360 is a 4U expansion enclosure that supports up to 60 3.5‐inch hard drives installed in a twelve‐column, ve-row
conguration.
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About the SCv3000 and SCv3020 Storage System