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
FWB — Force write back even in case of bad BBU
Virtual drive initialization commands
The PERC Command Line Tool supports the following commands to initialize virtual drives:
perccli /cx/vx show init
perccli /cx/vx start init [full][Force]
perccli /cx/vx stop init
NOTE: If the virtual drive has user data, you must use the force option to initialize the virtual drive. A virtual drive with a
valid MBR and partition table is considered to contain user data.
The detailed description for each command follows.
perccli /cx/vx show init
This command shows the initialization progress of a virtual drive in percentage.
Input example:
perccli /c0/v2 show init
perccli /cx/vx start init [full]
This command starts the initialization of a virtual drive. The default initialization type is fast initialization. If the full option is
specified, full initialization of the virtual drive starts.
Input example:
perccli /cx/vx start init [full]
perccli /cx/vx stop init
This command stops the initialization of a virtual drive. A stopped initialization cannot be resumed.
Input example:
perccli /c0/v0 stop init
Virtual drive erase commands
The PERC Command Line Tool supports the following command to erase virtual drives:
perccli /cx/vx erase [force]
This command erases the data on the virtual drive. You can use the force option as a confirmation to erase the data on the
drive and the security information.
Input example:
perccli /cx/vx show erase
perccli /cx/vx stop erase
perccli /cx/vx start erase [simple|normal|thorough|standard][patternA=<val>]
[patternB=<val>]
NOTE:
If the virtual drive has user data, you must use the force option to erase the virtual drive. A virtual drive with a
valid MBR and partition table is considered to contain user data.
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