Drive procedures 20
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
Status
Definition
1
Locate
Solid blue
The drive is being identified by a host application.
Flashing blue
The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an
update.
2
Activity ring
Rotating green Drive activity
Off
No drive activity
3
Do not remove 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.
4
Drive status
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.
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.
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