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Turn on a drive locator light in SANtricity System Manager

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From the Hardware page, you can turn on the locator light to find the physical location of a drive in the storage array.

About this task

You can locate single drives or multiple drives shown on the Hardware page.

Steps

  1. From the left panel, select menu:Hardware[Drives].

  2. To locate one or more drives, do one of the following:

    • Single drive — From the shelf graphic, find the drive you want to physically locate in the array. Click the drive to display its context menu, and then select Turn on locator light.

      The drive's locator light turns on. When you have physically located the drive, return to the dialog and select Turn off.

    • Multiple drives — In the filter field, select a physical drive type and a logical drive type. The number of drives matching your criteria is shown on the far right of the field. Next, click turn on locator lights. When you have physically located the drives, return to the dialog and select Turn off.