Front Panel Description - PaloAlto Networks M-500 Reference Manual

Front Panel Description

Front Panel Description
Figure 1 shows the front panel of the M-500 appliance and Table 1 describes the front panel
features.
Figure 1. Front Panel
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Table 1. Front Panel Features
Item
1. Disk drives/bays
2. Drive LEDs
3. Power button
4. Reset button
5. Power LED
6. Power failure LED
6 • Overview
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Description
The M-500 appliance has 24 disk drive bays. Starting from left to
right, the bays are labeled A1 to L2. Each pair of drives are in a
RAID1 configuration. For example, A1-A2 is a RAID1 pair, B1-B2 is
a RAID1 pair, and so on.
By default, the M-500 appliance ships with 8 1TB drives in RAID1
pairs installed in drive bays A1-D2 to provide 4TB of storage. You
can install additional RAID1 pairs from E1-H2 to add up to 8 more
drives (4 pairs) for a total of 8TB of storage.
Drive bays I1 to L2 are reserved for future use.
—Illuminates red when a drive failure occurs.
• Left LED
• Right LED—Flashes blue when there is drive activity. A connec-
tion to the SATA backplane enables the LED to flash on and off
when the particular drive is being accessed.
Main power button used to power the device on or to power it off.
Turning off system power with this button keeps the standby
power on. To completely power off the device, you must remove
the power source (AC plugs).
Reboots the system when pressed. A small object, such as a paper
clip, is required to access the button.
The LED is solid green when the appliance is powered on.
The LED flashes red when a power supply failure occurs or if a power
cord is removed.
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