Appliance physical interface

This section provides an overview of the components and summary of appliance features.

External features

The front panel of the system is shown below in the figure. Each drive is mounted on a drive carrier assembly with a push-down lever for quick installation and removal. Each populated disk drive carrier has an LED display that indicates the status of the disk drive (see Table 2):

Table 1. Disk drive LED status
Status Color
No drive present Off
Activity Flashing Green
Idle – no activity Off
Fault Amber
CAUTION:
To maintain proper airflow and cooling inside the chassis, all drive slots must have a disk driver carrier or tray. The system should never be operated with empty drive slots.
Note: See the figure showing Right Front Panel Detail – SFF ODP for more details about the Power/LED display features.
Figure 1. Front Panel Features for 2.5” SFF Drives
Mounting slide rail into rear of rack
Table 2. Front Panel Features for 2.5” SFF Drives
Item Description
1 Left/Right Handle
2 Pull Tag
3 SAS/SATA Drives Bays
4 Operational Display Panel (ODP)
5 USB 2.0 port
Figure 2. Right Front Panel Detail – SFF ODP
Right Front Panel Detail – SFF ODP
Table 3. Front Panel Features for 2.5” SFF Drives
Item Description
1 Power On/Off
2 UID
3 USB 2.0 (1x) port
4 System Power LED
  • Off: There is no AC power to the appliance
  • Green: AC power is on and power is supplied to all components.
5 UID
6 Network Activity
7 Power Fault
8 System Health
Figure 3. Rear Panel Features
Rear Panel Features
Table 4. Rear Panel Features for 2.5” SFF Drives
Item Description
1 PSU 2
2 PSU 1
3 Quad Port 10Gb NIC (AJ5W feature) or Quad Port 10GBase-T NIC(AJ5J feature as shown in rear panel image)
4 UID
5 10GbE LAN Port (2x)
6 USB 3.0 ports (2x)
7 Management Ethernet (IPMI) port
8 VGA port

System Components

The following figure identifies the components of the system and displays the locations of the components which you can replace (CRU).

Figure 4. System Components
System Components
Table 5. System Components
Item Description
1 OS drives
2 System Fans (7x)
3 DIMM Slots1
4 CMOS battery
5 PCIe Slot for (C10) External Disk Controller (M10 Raid Card
6 Not used
7 PSU (2x)
8 CPU Heat Sink and CPU1
9 Asset Tag
  • 1 Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) only