Left Control Panel View - Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Installation And Service Manual

Table 3. Features available on the front view of 8 x 2.5-inch drive system
Item Component
1 Left control panel
2 Drive slots
3 Right control panel
4 Information tag
5 Drive bay blank
For more information, see the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Technical Specifications on the product documentation page.

Left control panel view

Figure 4. Left control panel with optional iDRAC Quick Sync 2.0 indicator
Table 4. Left control panel
Item Indicator, button, or
connector
1 Status LED indicators
System health and system
2
ID indicator
iDRAC Quick Sync
3
2 wireless indicator
(optional)
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Description
Contains the system health and system ID, status LED, and the
iDRAC Quick Sync 2 (wireless) indicator.
NOTE: The iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicator is available only
on certain configurations.
Enable you to install drives that are supported on your
system. For more information about drives, see the Technical
specifications section.
Contains the power button, VGA port, iDRAC Direct port and
USB ports.
The Information tag is a slide-out label panel that contains
system information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address,
and so on. If you have opted for the secure default access
to iDRAC, the Information tag also contains the iDRAC secure
default password.
For the 8 x 2.5-inch drive system, a drive bay blank is installed
in the hard drive slots 8 - 23.
Description
Indicate the status of the system. For more information, see the
Status LED indicators section.
Indicates the system health. For more information, see the
System health and system ID indicator codes
Indicates if the iDRAC Quick Sync 2 wireless option is activated.
The Quick Sync 2 feature allows management of the system
using mobile devices. This feature aggregates hardware/
firmware inventory and various system level diagnostic/error
information that can be used in troubleshooting the system.
You can access system inventory, Dell Lifecycle Controller
logs or system logs, system health status, and also configure
iDRAC, BIOS, and networking parameters. You can also launch
the virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) viewer and
virtual Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), on a supported
section.