Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller Command Line Interface Reference Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Accessing the command prompt
- Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool
- System commands
- Controller commands
- Drive commands
- Virtual drives commands
- Add virtual drives commands
- Delete virtual drives commands
- Delete non-RAID disks
- Virtual drive show commands
- Preserved cache commands
- Change virtual drive properties commands
- Virtual drive initialization commands
- Virtual drive erase commands
- Virtual drive migration commands
- Virtual drive consistency check commands
- Background initialization commands
- Foreign configurations commands
- BIOS-related commands
- Drive group commands
- BBU commands
- Enclosure commands
- PHY commands
- Logging commands
- PERC CLI command examples
- Getting a complete list of CLI commands
- Checking controller availability
- Viewing controllers
- Viewing free space information
- Viewing disk1 information
- Viewing controller, virtual disk, and drivers information
- Checking for preserved cache
- Deleting preserved cache
- Viewing expansion information
- Viewing expansion size
- Viewing the foreign configuration
- Importing the foreign configuration
- Viewing BBU information
- Viewing physical drive details for the specified slot in the controller
- Viewing the boot drive for the controller
- Setting virtual drive as boot drive
- Locating a drive
- Stopping a locate operation
- Snapdump commands
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Table 3. Properties for show and set commands (continued)
Property name Set command range Description
reconrate
0 to 100 Sets reconstruction/migration rate
for a drive in percentage.
restorehotspare on|off
Becomes a hot spare on insertion
of a failed drive.
smartpollinterval
0 to 65535 Set time for polling of SMART
errors in seconds.
spinupdrivecount
0 to 255 Sets number of drives that are
spun up at a time.
spinupdelay
0 to 255 Sets spin-up delay between a group
of drives or a set of drives, in
seconds.
stoponerror on|off
Stops the MegaRAID BIOS
during POST, if any errors are
encountered.
time
Valid time in yymmdd hh:mm:ss format or systemtime Sets the controller time to your
input value or the system time
(local time in 24-hour format).
usefdeonlyencrypt on|off
Enables/disables FDE drive-based
encryption.
Controller show commands
The PERC Command Line Tool supports the following show commands:
perccli /cx show
perccli /cx show all
perccli /cx show freespace
perccli /cx show personality
The detailed description for each command follows.
perccli /cx show personality
This command shows the personality set on the controller. eHBA mode lists the personality as eHBA.
Input example:
perccli /c1 show personality
perccli /cx show [jbod]
This command shows the summary of the controller information. The summary includes basic controller information, foreign
configurations, drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, enclosures, and BBU information. If you use the JBOD option, the
command shows all Non-RAID disk(s) displayed in JBOD list. If the physical disk is Non-RAID, its type is set as JBOD and its
state as Online.
Input example:
perccli /c1 show
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Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool