Powering Up The Storage System; Powering Down The Storage System; Initializing Your Storage System; Figure 12. Powering Up The Storage System - Intel SS4000-E - Entry Storage System NAS Server User Manual

Getting Started

Powering Up the Storage System

Note: It is recommended that you plug the storage system into a surge protector or
uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to prevent damage to the system from power surges.
Plug in the system and then press the power button on the front of the storage system. See
letter "A" in the following figure.
The System Status LED light blinks green while the storage system boots. Once the
system is booted, the System Status LED and Disk Status LED remains green.
The System Status LED turns solid yellow when you power up the system for the first
time, indicating the hard drives are not configured with a RAID level. It remains yellow
until the drives are configured then the Status System LED turns solid green.

Powering Down the Storage System

See "Shutting Down the Storage System" on page 77
the storage system.

Initializing your Storage System

If your vendor installed the hard disks, they might have already been initialized. The
operating system that runs the storage system is loaded on the hard drives as part of the
initialization process. If your vendor did not initialize the disks, you must do so before you
can configure and use your storage system.
To determine whether or not your disks are initialized, and to initialize them if this was not
done, install the Storage System Console on a computer in the same subnet as your storage
system and use that application to connect to the storage system.
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Figure 12. Powering up the Storage System

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