Dell SCv3000 Deployment Manual page 21

Item Control/Feature
1 I/O card slot
2 Identification LED
3 Cache to Flash (C2F)
4 Health status
Icon Description
Fibre Channel I/O card – Ports are numbered 1 to 4 from left to right
• The LEDs on the 16 Gb Fibre Channel ports have the following meanings:
– All off – No power
– All on – Booting up
– Blinking amber – 4 Gbps activity
– Blinking green – 8 Gbps activity
– Blinking yellow – 16 Gbps activity
– Blinking amber and yellow – Beacon
– All blinking (simultaneous) – Firmware initialized
– All blinking (alternating) – Firmware fault
• The LEDs on the 32 Gb Fibre Channel ports have the following meanings:
– All off – No power
– All on – Booting up
– Blinking amber – 8 Gbps activity
– Blinking green – 16 Gbps activity
– Blinking yellow – 32 Gbps activity
– Blinking amber and yellow – Beacon
– All blinking (simultaneous) – Firmware initialized
– All blinking (alternating) – Firmware fault
iSCSI I/O card – Ports are numbered 1 to 4 from left to right
NOTE: The iSCSI I/O card supports Data Center Bridging (DCB), but
the mezzanine card does not support DCB.
• The LEDs on the iSCSI ports have the following meanings:
– Off – No power
– Steady Amber – Link
– Blinking Green – Activity
SAS I/O card – Ports are numbered 1 to 4 from left to right
The SAS ports on SAS I/O cards do not have LEDs.
Blinking blue continuously – A command was sent to the storage system to make
the LED blink so that you can identify the storage system in the rack.
The identification LED blinks on the control panel of the chassis, which allows
users to find the storage system when looking at the front of the rack.
The identification LEDs on the storage controllers also blink, which allows users to
find the storage system when looking at the back of the rack.
• Off – Running normally
• Blinking green – Running on battery (shutting down)
• Off – Unpowered
• Blinking amber
– Slow blinking amber (2s on, 1s off) – Controller hardware fault was
detected. Use Storage Manager to view specific details about the
hardware fault.
– Fast blinking amber (4x per second) – Power good and the pre-operating
system is booting
• Blinking green
– Slow blinking green (2s on, 1s off) – Operating system is booting
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