Front View

The following features are located on the front of the SYS-522B-WR server.

Figure 1. SYS-522B-WR Front View

Chassis Features: Front

Feature

Description

Control Panel

Front control panel with LEDs and buttons

Service Tag

Pull-out service tag with BMC password label

Storage Drive Locations

Item

Description

0–7

2.5" hot-swap SATA3/SAS3 drive bays

0–3

2.5" hot-swap NVMe hybrid drive bays

NVMe/SAS/SATA support may require an additional storage controller and/or cables.

Drive Carriers

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 indications are not supported, such as hot spare.

Note: Enterprise level disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and servers.

Drive Carrier LED Indicators

 

Color

Blinking Pattern

Behavior for Device

Activity LED

Blue

Solid On

SATA/SAS/NVMe drive installed

Blue

Blinking

I/O Activity

Status LED

Red

Solid On

Failure of drive with VROC support

Red

Blinking at 1 Hz

Rebuild drive with VROC support

Red

Blinking with two blinks and one stop at 1 Hz

Hot spare for drive with VROC support

Red

On for five seconds, then off

Power on for drive with VROC support

Red

Blinking at 4 Hz

Identify drive with VROC support

Green

Solid On

Save to remove in NVMe device

(not supported in VMD mode)

Amber

Blinking at 1 Hz

Attention state; do not remove NVMe device

(not supported in VMD mode)