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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
NVMe Drive Carrier Indicators
Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. For
RAID configurations using a controller, the meaning of the status indicator is described in the
table below. For OS RAID or non-RAID configurations, some LED status indicators may not
be supported (such as hot-spare) or status indicators may not be supported at all.
NVMe Drive Carrier LED Indicators
Color
Blinking Pattern
Behavior for Device
Activity
LED
Blue
Solid On
NVMe drive installed
Blue
Blinking
I/O activity
Status
LED
Red
Solid On
Indicates a drive failure.
Red
Blinking at 1 Hz
Indicates drive rebuild activity.
Red
Blinking with two blinks
and one stop at 1 Hz
Indicates a hot spare drive
.
Red
On for five seconds,
then off
Indicates a power-on drive status.
Red
Blinking at 4 Hz
Identifying or locating drive status.
Green
Solid On
Indicates NVMe drive is safe to remove
.
Amber
Blinking at 1 Hz
Attention state—do not remove NVMe device.
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website at
https://www.
supermicro.com/en/products/storage/superstorage/drives.
Hot-Swap for NVMe Drives
An NVMe drive can be inserted and replaced using IPMI.
Ejecting a Drive
1.
System > Storage Monitoring > Physical View
2. Select Slot and click
Eject
.
After ejecting, the drive Status LED indicator turns green.
3. Remove the drive.
Note that
Slot
is the slot number on which the NVMe drives are mounted.