Drive Procedures; Identifying The Status Of An Hpe Smartdrive; Recognizing Drive Failure - HPE Smart Array P240nr User Manual

Drive procedures

Identifying the status of an HPE SmartDrive

HPE SmartDrives are the latest Hewlett Packard Enterprise drive technology, and they are supported
beginning with ProLiant Gen8 servers and server blades. The SmartDrive is not supported on earlier
generation servers and server blades. Identify a SmartDrive by its carrier, shown in the following
illustration.
When a drive is configured as a part of an array and connected to a powered-up controller, the drive LEDs
indicate the condition of the drive.
Item LED
Locate
1
Activity ring
2
Do not remove
3
Drive status
4
The blue Locate LED is behind the release lever and is visible when illuminated.

Recognizing drive failure

If any of the following occurs, the drive has failed:
•
The drive status LED illuminates amber.
Status Definition
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 The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts
amber/green 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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