4When you have located the physical disks, click OK.

The LEDs stop blinking. If any other blink operations (Blink Disk Group, Blink Storage Array, Blink Physical Disk Ports, or Blink Expansion Enclosure) are currently being invoked from another storage management station, these LEDs also stop blinking.

5In the rare case that the LEDs on the physical disks do not stop blinking, in the AMW, select Storage ArrayBlinkStop All Indications.

If the LEDs successfully stop blinking, a confirmation message is displayed.

6Click OK.

Locating an Expansion Enclosure

You can use the Blink option to physically locate and identify an expansion enclosure in the storage array.

The LED activation varies according to the type of expansion enclosure that you have.

If you have an expansion enclosure with a white LED, the Blink Expansion Enclosure operation causes the white LED on the expansion enclosure to come on. The LED does not blink.

If you have any other types of expansion enclosures, this operation causes the appropriate LED on all of the physical disks in the expansion enclosure to blink.

To locate the expansion enclosure:

1Select the Physical tab.

2Select a physical disk in the expansion enclosure that you want to locate.

3Select Physical DiskBlinkExpansion Enclosure.

The LED or LEDs on the expansion enclosure or physical disks come on.

4When you have located the expansion enclosure, click OK.

The LEDs stop blinking. (If you have an expansion enclosure with a blue LED, the LED goes off). If any other blink operations (Blink Storage Array, Blink Disk Group, Blink Physical Disk Ports, Blink Expansion Enclosure, or

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