HP ProLiant DL388e Gen8 Server - Manual (Page 16)

Component identification 16
Drive LED definitions
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, stripe 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.
IMPORTANT: When the SAS-enabled riser board with the Smart Array B320i Controller is
installed in the server, the embedded Smart Array B120i Controller is disabled automatically.
When this condition occurs:
• Drives connected to the system board operate in AHCI or Legacy mode.
• In AHCI or Legacy mode, drives cannot be a part of a hardware RAID or a logical drive.
• The Locate, Drive status, and Do not remove LEDs of the affected drives are disabled.
FBWC module LED definitions
The FBWC module has three single-color LEDs (one amber and two green). The LEDs on the cache module
installed on a storage controller are duplicated on the reverse side of the module to facilitate status viewing.