Drive Status (OK)
Activity
Hard disk drive carrier LEDs
Front panel LED behavior
The table below describes LED behavior when boot-up is nished and the system is
functioning normally:
LED Description
Power Lights BLUE to indicate the system is powered on.
System Status Lights GREEN when healthy, RED if there is a critical problem
(LD ofine, fan malfunction, voltage out of range, system
temperature alert), blinks RED for HDD high temperature alert
remains dark when not ready.
Global RAID
Status
Lights GREEN when healthy or RED if any RAID volume is
ofine, ORANGE for critical state of any logical drive, or when
the system is rebuilding.
Global HDD
Activity
Blinks BLUE to indicate one or more drives are being
accessed, lights steady BLUE when no drives are being
accessed.
System Heartbeat Blinks BLUE slowly at regular intervals to indicate the rmware
and software are operating normally.
OPAS USB Lights GREEN if an OPAS device (USB disk) is detected,
remains RED if the OPAS operation has failed, blinks GREEN
when an OPAS operation is in progress.
Disk Drive LEDs
There are two LEDs on each Drive Carrier. They report activity of the drive, and the
drive’s current condition.
The Activity LED ashes BLUE during drive activity.
The Disk Status LED displays GREEN when a drive is congured and working properly.
When the lights are RED the HDD requires manual replacement. When ORANGE is
observed it indicates background RAID activity on this particular HDD. It is just a status
notication and no user action is required.
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