HPE P02467-B21 User Manual

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server User Guide

Abstract

This document is for the person who installs, administers, and troubleshoots servers and storage systems. Hewlett Packard Enterprise assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels.

Part Number: 868990-001 Published: July 2017 Edition: 1

Notices

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Component identification........................................................................... 8

Front panel components......................................................................................................................8

Front panel LEDs and buttons...........................................................................................................10

UID button functionality...........................................................................................................14

Power fault LEDs....................................................................................................................14

Systems Insight Display LEDs................................................................................................14

Systems Insight Display combined LED descriptions.............................................................15

Rear panel components.................................................................................................................... 17

Rear panel LEDs............................................................................................................................... 18

System board components................................................................................................................19

System maintenance switch descriptions............................................................................... 20

Processor, heatsink, and socket components...................................................................................21

Drives................................................................................................................................................ 21

SAS/SATA drive components and LEDs.................................................................................22

NVMe drive components and LEDs........................................................................................23

uFF drive components and LEDs........................................................................................... 23

Fan bay numbering............................................................................................................................24

Drive box identification...................................................................................................................... 25

Drive bay numbering......................................................................................................................... 26

Drive bay numbering: Smart Array controller..........................................................................26

Drive bay numbering: SAS expander..................................................................................... 28

Drive bay numbering: NVMe drives........................................................................................ 30

uFF drive bay numbering........................................................................................................31

Operations..................................................................................................32

Powering up the server......................................................................................................................32

Power down the server .....................................................................................................................32

Extend the server from the rack........................................................................................................ 32

Extending the server from the rack....................................................................................................33

Removing the server from the rack................................................................................................... 34

Installing the server into the rack.......................................................................................................34

Remove the access panel................................................................................................................. 36

Installing the access panel................................................................................................................ 36

Removing the fan cage......................................................................................................................36

Installing the fan cage........................................................................................................................37

Removing the air baffle or midplane drive cage................................................................................ 37

Installing the air baffle........................................................................................................................39

Removing a riser cage.......................................................................................................................40

Removing a riser slot blank............................................................................................................... 41

Removing the hard drive blank..........................................................................................................41

Releasing the cable management arm .............................................................................................42

Accessing the Systems Insight Display.............................................................................................42

Setup...........................................................................................................44

HPE support services........................................................................................................................44

Setup overview..................................................................................................................................44

Operational requirements....................................................................................................... 44

Space and airflow requirements.................................................................................. 44

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Temperature requirements...........................................................................................45

Power requirements.....................................................................................................46

Electrical grounding requirements............................................................................... 46

Server warnings and cautions................................................................................................ 46

Rack warnings........................................................................................................................ 47

Electrostatic discharge............................................................................................................47

Server box contents................................................................................................................48

Installing hardware options ....................................................................................................48

Configuring the server............................................................................................................ 48

Installing or deploying an operating system............................................................................48

Registering the server.............................................................................................................49

Hardware options installation.................................................................. 50

Product QuickSpecs..........................................................................................................................50

Introduction........................................................................................................................................50

Installing the bezel and bezel lock.....................................................................................................50

Power supply options........................................................................................................................ 51

Hot-plug power supply calculations........................................................................................ 51

Installing a redundant hot-plug power supply......................................................................... 51

Drive options......................................................................................................................................52

Drive guidelines...................................................................................................................... 52

Supported drive carriers......................................................................................................... 53

Installing a hot-plug SAS or SATA drive..................................................................................53

Installing an NVMe drive.........................................................................................................54

Installing a uFF drive and SCM drive carrier.......................................................................... 55

Installing an M.2 drive.............................................................................................................56

Fan options........................................................................................................................................57

Installing high-performance fans.............................................................................................58

Memory options.................................................................................................................................59

DIMM population information..................................................................................................59

HPE Smart Memory speed information.................................................................................. 60

DIMM label identification.........................................................................................................60

Installing a DIMM....................................................................................................................61

Controller options.............................................................................................................................. 62

Installing a storage controller..................................................................................................62

Installing a Universal Media Bay....................................................................................................... 63

Drive cage options.............................................................................................................................65

Installing a front 8NVMe SSD Express Bay drive cage.......................................................... 65

Installing a front 6SFF SAS/SATA + 2NVMe Premium drive cage......................................... 67

Installing airflow labels................................................................................................. 68

Installing a front 8SFF SAS/SATA drive cage in box 1........................................................... 69

Installing a front 8SFF SAS/SATA drive cage in box 2........................................................... 71

Installing a front 2SFF NVMe/SAS/SATA Premium drive cage...............................................72

Installing a midplane 4LFF SAS/SATA drive cage..................................................................75

Installing a rear 2SFF SAS/SATA drive cage in the primary or secondary riser..................... 77

Installing a rear 2SFF SAS/SATA drive cage over the power supplies...................................79

Installing a rear 3LFF SAS/SATA drive cage.......................................................................... 82

Riser and riser cage options..............................................................................................................84

Installing primary and secondary risers.................................................................................. 84

Installing tertiary risers............................................................................................................85

Installing a secondary riser cage............................................................................................ 86

Installing a tertiary riser cage..................................................................................................87

Installing the 2NVMe slimSAS riser option............................................................................. 89

Installing the 8NVMe slimSAS riser option............................................................................. 90

Expansion slots................................................................................................................................. 91

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Supported PCIe form factors.................................................................................................. 91

Installing expansion boards.................................................................................................... 92

Installing a 12G SAS Expander Card..................................................................................... 94

Installing a GPU card..............................................................................................................96

Installing an intrusion detection switch............................................................................................ 100

Installing a Smart Storage Battery...................................................................................................101

Installing a rear serial port interface................................................................................................ 102

Installing a Systems Insight Display................................................................................................ 104

Installing a FlexibleLOM adapter.....................................................................................................106

Installing a 1U or high-performance heatsink..................................................................................108

Installing a processor.......................................................................................................................110

HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Gen10 Option............................................................................112

Overview............................................................................................................................... 112

HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Guidelines...................................................................... 113

Disabling Chipset-TPM......................................................................................................... 113

Installing and enabling the HPE TPM 2.0 Gen10 Kit............................................................ 113

Installing the Trusted Platform Module board.............................................................113

Enabling the Trusted Platform Module.......................................................................116

Retaining the recovery key/password........................................................................ 117

Cabling......................................................................................................118

HPE ProLiant Gen10 DL Servers Storage Cabling Guidelines....................................................... 118

Cabling diagrams.............................................................................................................................118

Cable routing: Front 2SFF drive option for SFF....................................................................120

Cable routing: Front 2SFF drive option for LFF.................................................................... 121

Cable routing: Front 2SFF drive options (3 position cable).................................................. 122

Cable routing: Front 8SFF drive options...............................................................................123

Cable routing: Front 8SFF NVMe/SAS premium drive option.............................................. 125

Cable routing: Front 8SFF NVMe drive options....................................................................125

Cable routing: Front 2SFF NVMe drive option for SFF.........................................................127

Cable routing: Front 2SFF NVMe drive option for LFF......................................................... 128

Cable routing: Midplane 4LFF drive option...........................................................................128

Cable routing: Rear 3LFF drive option..................................................................................129

Cable routing: Rear 2SFF drive options............................................................................... 129

Cable routing: HPE 12G SAS Expander to a controller........................................................130

Cable routing: Systems Insight Display................................................................................ 131

Software and configuration utilities.......................................................132

Server mode....................................................................................................................................132

Product QuickSpecs........................................................................................................................132

Active Health System Viewer.......................................................................................................... 132

Active Health System............................................................................................................132

Active Health System data collection.........................................................................133

Active Health System Log..........................................................................................133

HPE iLO 5........................................................................................................................................133

iLO Federation......................................................................................................................133

iLO Service Port....................................................................................................................134

iLO RESTful API...................................................................................................................134

RESTful Interface Tool..........................................................................................................134

iLO Amplifier Pack................................................................................................................ 135

Intelligent Provisioning.....................................................................................................................135

Intelligent Provisioning operation..........................................................................................135

Management Security......................................................................................................................136

Scripting Toolkit for Windows and Linux..........................................................................................136

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UEFI System Utilities.......................................................................................................................136

Selecting the boot mode ......................................................................................................137

Secure Boot..........................................................................................................................137

Launching the Embedded UEFI Shell ..................................................................................138

HPE Smart Storage Administrator...................................................................................................138

USB support.................................................................................................................................... 139

External USB functionality.................................................................................................... 139

Redundant ROM support.................................................................................................................139

Safety and security benefits..................................................................................................139

Keeping the system current.............................................................................................................139

Updating firmware or system ROM.......................................................................................139

Service Pack for ProLiant.......................................................................................... 139

Updating firmware from the System Utilities ............................................................. 141

Updating the firmware from the UEFI Embedded Shell ............................................ 141

Online Flash components.......................................................................................... 141

Drivers.................................................................................................................................. 142

Software and firmware..........................................................................................................142

Operating System Version Support...................................................................................... 142

HPE Technology Service Portfolio........................................................................................142

Change control and proactive notification.............................................................................143

Troubleshooting.......................................................................................144

NMI functionality..............................................................................................................................144

Troubleshooting resources..............................................................................................................144

Safety, warranty, and regulatory information........................................145

Safety and regulatory compliance................................................................................................... 145

Warranty information....................................................................................................................... 145

Regulatory information.................................................................................................................... 145

Belarus Kazakhstan Russia marking.................................................................................... 145

Turkey RoHS material content declaration........................................................................... 146

Ukraine RoHS material content declaration..........................................................................146

Specifications.......................................................................................... 147

Environmental specifications...........................................................................................................147

Mechanical specifications................................................................................................................147

Power supply specifications............................................................................................................ 148

HPE 500W Flex Slot Platinum Hot-plug Power Supply........................................................ 148

HPE 800W Flex Slot Platinum Hot-plug Power Supply........................................................ 149

HPE 800W Flex Slot Titanium Plus Hot-plug Power Supply................................................ 150

HPE 800W Flex Slot Universal Hot-plug Power Supply....................................................... 151

HPE 800W Flex Slot -48VDC Hot-plug Power Supply......................................................... 152

HPE 1600W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply...................................................... 153

Support and other resources................................................................. 154

Accessing Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support.............................................................................. 154

Accessing updates.......................................................................................................................... 154

Customer self repair........................................................................................................................ 154

Remote support...............................................................................................................................155

Warranty information....................................................................................................................... 155

Regulatory information.................................................................................................................... 156

Documentation feedback.................................................................................................................156

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Documentation feedback........................................................................ 157

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Component identification

Front panel components

SFF front panel components

Item Description

1 Box 1 (optional drives or universal media bay)

2 Box 2 (optional drives)

3 Box 3 Drives 1-8

4 Serial label pull tab or optional Systems Insight Display

5 iLO service port

6 USB 3.0 port

Universal media bay components

Item Description

1 USB 2.0 port

2 Video display port

3 Optical disk drive (optional)

4 Drives (optional)

8 Component identification

12-drive LFF front panel components

Item Description

1 Drive bays

8-drive LFF model front panel components

Item Description

1 Drives (optional)

2 LFF power switch module

3 Drive bays

LFF power switch module components

Component identification 9

Item Description

1 Optical disk drive

2 Serial label pull tab

3 USB 3.0 port

4 iLO service port

5 Video display port

Front panel LEDs and buttons

SFF front panel LEDs and button

Item Description Status

1 Power On/Standby button and

system power LED*

2 Health LED*

Solid green = System on

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Performing power on sequence

Solid amber = System in standby

Off = No power present†

Solid green = Normal

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = iLO is rebooting

Flashing amber = System degraded

Flashing red (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = System critical**

Table Continued

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Item Description Status

3 NIC status LED*

4 UID button/LED*

*When all four LEDs described in this table flash simultaneously, a power fault has occurred. For more information, see "Power fault LEDs."

**If the health LED indicates a degraded or critical state, review the system IML or use iLO to review the system health status.

†Facility power is not present, power cord is not attached, no power supplies are installed, power supply failure has occurred, or the power button cable is disconnected.

Solid green = Link to network

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Network active

Off = No network activity

Solid blue = Activated

Flashing blue:

• 1 Hz/cycle per sec = Remote management or firmware upgrade in progress

• 4 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence initiated

• 8 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence in progress

Off = Deactivated

LFF 12-drive model front panel LEDs and button

Component identification 11

Item Description Status

1 Health LED*

2 Power On/Standby button and

system power LED*

3 NIC status LED*

4 UID button/LED*

Solid green = Normal

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = iLO is rebooting

Flashing amber = System degraded

Flashing red (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = System critical**

Solid green = System on

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Performing power on sequence

Solid amber = System in standby

Off = No power present†

Solid green = Link to network

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Network active

Off = No network activity

Solid blue = Activated

Flashing blue:

• 1 Hz/cycle per sec = Remote management or firmware upgrade in progress

• 4 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence initiated

• 8 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence in progress

Off = Deactivated

*When all four LEDs described in this table flash simultaneously, a power fault has occurred. For more information, see "Power fault LEDs."

**If the health LED indicates a degraded or critical state, review the system IML or use iLO to review the system health status.

†Facility power is not present, power cord is not attached, no power supplies are installed, power supply failure has occurred, or the power button cable is disconnected.

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LFF power switch module LEDs and button

Item Description Status

1 UID button/LED*

2 Health LED*

3 NIC status LED*

4 Power On/Standby button and

system power LED*

Solid blue = Activated

Flashing blue:

• 1 Hz/cycle per sec = Remote management or firmware upgrade in progress

• 4 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence initiated

• 8 Hz/cycle per sec = iLO manual reboot sequence in progress

Off = Deactivated

Solid green = Normal

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = iLO is rebooting

Flashing amber = System degraded

Flashing red (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = System critical**

Solid green = Link to network

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Network active

Off = No network activity

Solid green = System on

Flashing green (1 Hz/cycle per sec) = Performing power on sequence

Solid amber = System in standby

Off = No power present†

*When all four LEDs described in this table flash simultaneously, a power fault has occurred. For more information, see "Power fault LEDs."

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**If the health LED indicates a degraded or critical state, review the system IML or use iLO to review the system health status.

†Facility power is not present, power cord is not attached, no power supplies are installed, power supply failure has occurred, or the power button cable is disconnected.

UID button functionality

The UID button can be used to display the HPE ProLiant Pre-boot Health Summary when the server will not power on. For more information, see the latest HPE iLO User Guide on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise

website.

Power fault LEDs

The following table provides a list of power fault LEDs, and the subsystems that are affected. Not all power faults are used by all servers.

Subsystem LED behavior

System board 1 flash

Processor 2 flashes

Memory 3 flashes

Riser board PCIe slots 4 flashes

FlexibleLOM 5 flashes

Removable HPE Flexible Smart Array controller/Smart SAS HBA controller

System board PCIe slots 7 flashes

Power backplane or storage backplane 8 flashes

Power supply 9 flashes

Systems Insight Display LEDs

The Systems Insight Display LEDs represent the system board layout. The display enables diagnosis with the access panel installed.

6 flashes

14 UID button functionality

Description Status

Processor LEDs

DIMM LEDs

Fan LEDs

NIC LEDs

Power supply LEDs

PCI riser LED

Off = Normal

Amber = Failed processor

Off = Normal

Amber = Failed DIMM or configuration issue

Off = Normal

Amber = Failed fan or missing fan

Off = No link to network

Solid green = Network link

Flashing green = Network link with activity

If power is off, the front panel LED is not active. For status, see Rear panel LEDs on page 18.

Off = Normal

Solid amber = Power subsystem degraded, power supply failure, or input power lost.

Off = Normal

Amber = Incorrectly installed PCI riser cage

Over temp LED

Amp Status LED

Power cap LED

When the health LED on the front panel illuminates either amber or red, the server is experiencing a health event. For more information on the combination of these LEDs, see Systems Insight Display combined LED descriptions on page 15).

Off = Normal

Amber = High system temperature detected

Off = AMP modes disabled

Solid green = AMP mode enabled

Solid amber = Failover

Flashing amber = Invalid configuration

Off = System is in standby, or no cap is set.

Solid green = Power cap applied

Systems Insight Display combined LED descriptions

The combined illumination of the following LEDs indicates a system condition:

• Systems Insight Display LEDs

• System power LED

• Health LED

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Systems Insight Display LED and color

Health LED

System power LED

Status

Processor (amber) Red Amber

Processor (amber) Amber Green Processor in socket X is in a pre-

DIMM (amber) Red Green One or more DIMMs have failed.

DIMM (amber) Amber Green DIMM in slot X is in a pre-failure

Over temp (amber) Amber Green The Health Driver has detected a

Over temp (amber) Red Amber The server has detected a hardware

PCI riser (amber) Red Green The PCI riser cage is not seated

One or more of the following conditions may exist:

• Processor in socket X has failed.

• Processor X is not installed in the socket.

• Processor X is unsupported.

• ROM detects a failed processor during POST.

failure condition.

condition.

cautionary temperature level.

critical temperature level.

properly.

Fan (amber) Amber Green One fan has failed or has been

removed.

Fan (amber) Red Green Two or more fans have failed or been

removed.

Power supply (amber) Red Amber

Power supply (amber) Amber Green

One or more of the following conditions may exist:

• Only one power supply is installed and that power supply is in standby.

• Power supply fault

• System board fault

One or more of the following conditions may exist:

• Redundant power supply is installed and only one power supply is functional.

• AC power cord is not plugged into redundant power supply.

• Redundant power supply fault

• Power supply mismatch at POST or power supply mismatch through hot-plug addition

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Table Continued

Systems Insight Display LED and color

Power cap (off) — Amber Standby

Health LED

System power LED

Status

Power cap (green) — Flashing

Power cap (green) — Green Power is available.

Power cap (flashing amber) — Amber Power is not available.

IMPORTANT:

If more than one DIMM slot LED is illuminated, further troubleshooting is required. Test each bank of DIMMs by removing all other DIMMs. Isolate the failed DIMM by replacing each DIMM in a bank with a known working DIMM.

Rear panel components

Waiting for power

green

Item Description

1 Primary riser slots 1-3 (Optional drive cage)

2 Optional riser slots 4-6 (Optional drive cage)

3 Optional riser slots 7-8 (Optional drive cage)

4 Power supply 1

5 Power supply 2

6 Video port

7 Serial port (optional)*

8 1Gb RJ-45 ports 1–4

9 iLO management port

10 USB 3.0 ports

11 FlexibleLOM slot

*When a tertiary riser cage is installed as shown, the serial port can installed in riser slot 6.

Rear panel components 17

Rear panel LEDs

Item Description Status

1 UID LED

2 Link LED

3 Activity LED

4 Power supply

LEDs

Off = Deactivated

Solid blue = Activated

Flashing blue = System being managed remotely

Off = No network link

Green = Network link

Off = No network activity

Solid green = Link to network

Flashing green = Network activity

Off = System is off or power supply has failed.

Solid green = Normal

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System board components

Item Description

1 FlexibleLOM connector

2 System maintenance switch

3 Primary PCIe riser connector

4 Front display port/USB 2.0 connector

Table Continued

System board components 19

Item Description

5 x4 SATA port 1

6 x4 SATA port 2

7 x2 SATA port 3

8 x1 SATA port 4

9 Optical disk drive/SATA port 5

10 Front power/USB 3.0 connector

11 Drive backplane power connectors

12 Smart Storage Battery connector

13 Chassis intrusion detection connector

14 Drive backplane power connector

15 Micro SD card slot

16 Dual internal USB 3.0 ports

17 Type-a Smart Array connector

18 Secondary PCIe riser connector*

19 System battery

20 Tertiary PCIe riser connector*

21 TPM connector

22 Serial port connector (optional)

* Requires a second processor

System maintenance switch descriptions

Position Default Function

S2 — Reserved

S3 Off Reserved

S4 Off Reserved

Off

Off = iLO security is enabled.

On = iLO security is disabled.

Off = Power-on password is enabled.

On = Power-on password is disabled.

1, 2

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Off

Off = No function

On = Restore default manufacturing settings

Table Continued

Position Default Function

S7 — Reserved

S8 — Reserved

S9 — Reserved

S10 — Reserved

S11 — Reserved

S12 — Reserved

You can access the redundant ROM by setting S1, S5, and S6 to On.

When the system maintenance switch position 6 is set to the On position, the system is prepared to restore

all configuration settings to their manufacturing defaults.

When the system maintenance switch position 6 is set to the On position and Secure Boot is enabled, some configurations cannot be restored. For more information, see Secure Boot configuration.

Processor, heatsink, and socket components

Item Description

1 Heatsink nuts

2 Processor frame

3 Pin 1 indicator

4 Heatsink latch

5 Alignment post

Symbol also on the processor and frame.

Drives

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SAS/SATA drive components and LEDs

Item Description Status

1 Locate

2 Activity ring LED

3 Do not remove LED

4 Drive status LED

• Solid blue = The drive is being identified by a host application.

• Flashing blue = The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an update.

• Rotating green = Drive activity.

• Off = No drive activity.

• Solid white = Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or more of the logical drives to fail.

• Off = Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail.

• Solid green = The drive is a member of one or more logical drives.

• Flashing green = The drive is rebuilding or performing a RAID migration, strip size migration, capacity expansion, or logical drive extension, or is erasing.

• Flashing amber/green = The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts the drive will fail.

• Flashing amber = The drive is not configured and predicts the drive will fail.

• Solid amber = The drive has failed.

• Off = The drive is not configured by a RAID controller.

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NVMe drive components and LEDs

Item Description

1 Release lever

2 Activity ring

3 Do Not Remove LED

4 Request to Remove NVMe Drive button

Do not remove an NVMe SSD from the drive bay while the Do Not Remove button LED is flashing. The Do Not Remove button LED flashes to indicate the device is still in use. Removal of the NVMe SSD before the device has completed and ceased signal/traffic flow can cause loss of data.

uFF drive components and LEDs

Item Description Status

1 Locate

2 uFF drive ejection latch Removes the uFF drive when released

• Off—Normal

• Solid blue—The drive is being identified by a host application

• Flashing blue—The drive firmware is being updated or requires an update

Table Continued

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Item Description Status

3 Do not remove LED

4 Drive status LED

5 Adapter ejection release latch

and handle

• Off—OK to remove the drive. Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail.

• Solid white—Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or more of the logical drives to fail.

• Off—The drive is not configured by a RAID controller

• Solid green—The drive is a member of one or more logical drives

• Flashing green (4 Hz)—The drive is operating normally and has activity

• Flashing green (1 Hz)—The drive is rebuilding or performing a RAID migration, stripe size migration, capacity expansion, logical drive extension, or is erasing

• Flashing amber/green (1 Hz)—The drive is a member of one or more logical drives that predicts the drive will fail

• Solid amber—The drive has failed

• Flashing amber (1 Hz)—The drive is not configured and predicts the drive will fail

Removes the SFF flash adapter when released

Fan bay numbering

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Drive box identification

Front boxes

Item Description

1 Box 1

2 Box 2

3 Box 3

Item Description

1 Box 1

2 Box 2

3 Box 3

Rear boxes

Item Description

1 Box 4

2 Box 5

3 Box 6

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Item Description

1 Box 4

2 Box 6

Midplane box (LFF only)

Item Description

1 Box 7

Drive bay numbering

Drive bay numbering depends on how the drive backplanes are connected:

• To a controller

◦ Embedded controllers use the onboard SATA ports. ◦ Type-a controllers install to the type-a smart array connector. ◦ Type-p controllers install to a PCIe riser.

• To a SAS expander

Installs in the primary or secondary PCIe riser

Drive bay numbering: Smart Array controller

When the drive backplane is connected directly to a storage controller, then each drive box starts at 1. The following images are examples of common configurations.

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Component identification 27

Drive bay numbering: SAS expander

Drive numbering through a SAS Expander is continuous.

• SAS expander port 1 always connects to port 1 of the controller.

• SAS expander port 2 always connects to port 2 of the controller.

• SAS expander port 3 = drive numbers 1-4.

• SAS expander port 4 = drive numbers 5-8.

• SAS expander port 5 = drive numbers 9-12.

• SAS expander port 6 = drive numbers 13-16.

• SAS expander port 7 = drive numbers 17-20.

• SAS expander port 8 = drive numbers 21-24.

• SAS expander port 9 = drive numbers 25-28.

Common configuration examples:

28 Drive bay numbering: SAS expander

When any stacked 2SFF drive cage is connected to the SAS expander, the drive numbering skips the second number to allow uFF drive bay numbering on page 31. For example, when a rear 2SFF drive cage is connected to SAS expander port 9, then the drive numbers are 25 and 27.

When the front 24SFF bays are populated, any installed rear 2SFF drives are always 25 and 27.

If a 2SFF drive cage is connected to SAS expander port 3, then the drive numbers are 1 and 3.

Component identification 29

Front 12LFF + Midplane 4LFF + All rear 2SFF:

Drive bay numbering: NVMe drives

If the server is populated with NVMe drives and NVMe risers:

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