Hardware Owner's Manual

32 About Your System

The hard-disk drives plug into the internal storage backplane inside the blade.

On blades with a diskless configuration, all hard drive slots must be filled with

hard drive blanks, and the internal storage backplane must still be installed to

maintain proper airflow.

See

Figure 1-14

for information on the hard-drive indicators. Different

patterns are displayed as drive events occur in the system.

NOTE: The blade must have a hard drive or a hard-drive blank installed in each

hard-drive bay.

NOTE: The hard-drive status indicator is only functional for RAID hard drive

configurations. For non-RAID configurations, only the drive-activity indicator is

active. Refer to the RAID controller documentation to service a RAID volume,

rebuild an array, or swap RAID members.

Figure 1-14. Hard-Drive Indicators

1 drive-activity indicator (green) 2 drive-status indicator (green and

amber)