Disk carrier LED
color
Status indicator
Description
Action to take
Note
Green (activity)
Solid
The disk carrier has
power.
None
The shelf digital
display shows the
shelf ID. (The shelf is
not in H1 shelf
mode.)
Blinking
The disk carrier has
power and I/O is in
progress.
When one of the two disk drives in a disk carrier has faulted, the system initiates the H1 shelf
mode automatically. The disk shelf remains in H1 shelf mode until the data from the good disk
drive in the disk carrier is copied to a spare.
When the shelf is in H1 shelf mode, the shelf digital display alternates between flashing
H1 and
the shelf ID number. In addition, the amber LED on the disk carrier continues to blink until all the
data is copied from the good disk drive to the spare. If multiple disk carriers display blinking
amber LEDs while
H1 is flashing, it means that multiple disk carriers have data being copied.
After all the data is copied, the amber LED turns solid and the shelf digital display shows only the
shelf ID, indicating that the system has exited H1 shelf mode and it is safe to remove the disk
carrier.
Attention: It can take up to 12 hours or more for each
terabyte of data to finish copying from a good disk to a
spare disk. The disk copies operate in the background
and are throttled to minimize impact to client I/O. Do not
remove any faulted disk carrier while the disk shelf is in
H1 shelf mode or while any amber LEDs are blinking.
You can safely remove a disk carrier only when all
amber LEDs are solid and the system has exited H1 shelf
mode.
The following table summarizes how the H1 shelf mode and LEDs behave to indicate when it is
unsafe and safe to remove a faulted disk carrier:
Disk carrier
LED color
Status indicator
Description
H1 shelf mode
(on/off)
Shelf digital
display
Action to take
Amber (fault)
Blinking
There is an error
with the function
of the disk carrier,
and data from the
good disk drive in
the faulted disk
carrier is being
copied to a spare.
H1 shelf mode is
on
Alternates
between
H1 and
the shelf ID
Do not remove
the disk carrier at
this time.
Solid
The data from the
good disk drive in
the faulted disk
carrier has been
copied
successfully to a
spare.
H1 shelf mode is
off
Shelf ID
It is now safe to
remove the
faulted disk
carrier.
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Monitoring disk shelf components