CLI Guide

Table 101. Details of storage (continued)
● -sc—Number of spans in a virtual disk (required for multi-span RAID level)
NOTE:
○ From PERC9 storage controller onwards, if the value of
controller.SupportRAID10UnevenSpans is supported, you can enter only 0 for this
option while creating RAID level 10. The created RAID10 virtual disk displays the spandepth as 1
(default).
○ For other controllers:
￭ The default value for multi-span RAID levels is 2 and for basic RAID level is 1.
￭ For hybrid RAID levels such as RAID10, RAID50, and RAID60, this option is mandatory.
￭ The value for-sc option can be 0 only for RAID10.
● -T10PIEnable—Creates a virtual disk with protection information.
● -sd <SecureDisk>—Set the secure disk to encrypt the VD.
○ enabled—Enable the encryption in VD.
○ disabled—Disable the encryption in VD.
● -key <Key id>—Specifies the key id.
● -passwd <passphrase>—Specifies the passphrase.
● -newpasswd <passphrase>—Specifies the new passphrase.
● -assign {yes | no}—Assigns or unassigns the disk as a hotspare.
● -type { ghs | dhs}—Assigns a global or dedicated hotspare.
● -vdkey:<VD FQDD>—Assigns the dedicated hotspare to the specified virtual disk. This option is
required for dedicated hotspare.
● -state <start|stop>—start value starts a patrol read operation. stop value stops a running
patrol read operation.
NOTE:
○ To start the operation, the Controller.PatrolReadMode must be in Manual mode.
○ The values displayed for properties such as Patrol Read, Check Consistency Rate,
Rebuild Rate, BGI Rate, and Reconstruction Rate are displayed in percentage.
● -speed—Specifies the initialization of the Virtual disk.
○ fast—Performs fast initialization.
○ full—Performs slow initialization.
● blink: <FQDD> or unblink: <FQDD>—<FQDD> can be physical disk drives, virtual disks, or
PCIeSSD.
● <PCIeSSD FQDD>—Specifies the PCIeSSD FQDD.
● <PCIeSSD controller|enclosure FQDD>—Specifies the PCIeSSD controller or enclosure
FQDD.
● preparetoremove—Specifies the PCIeSSD drive to prepare for removal.
NOTE: Ensure that ISM is installed and running to perform the preparetoremove operation.
● cryptographicerase—Specifies the PCIeSSD, SED (Self encrypting drive) or ISE device to
perform the cryptographic erase operation.
NOTE:
If running this operation on an ISE or SED device, it must not be a part of a RAID volume. If
the device is part of a RAID volume, delete the volume first and then run cryptographicerase.
● -mdtype { windows | linux}—Specifies the metadata type for the physical disk conversion to
RAID
NOTE: SWRAID only supports mdtype.
● -mode—Specifies the PERC key management type.
● To view the help details for a configuration command, run the following command:
racadm storage help <command>
where command can take below values
converttoraid, converttononraid, controllers, clearconfig,
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RACADM Subcommand Details