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
Input example:
perccli /c0/s5 show rebuild
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx start rebuild
This command starts a rebuild operation for a drive.
Input example:
perccli /c0/s4 start rebuild
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx stop rebuild
This command stops a rebuild operation. You can run this command only for a drive that is currently rebuilt.
Input example:
perccli /c0/s4 stop rebuild
Drive copyback commands
The PERC Command Line Tool supports the following commands for drive copyback:
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx pause copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx resume copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx show copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx start copyback target=e:s
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx stop copyback
NOTE: In the copyback commands,cx[/ex]/sx indicates the source drive and e:s indicates the target drive.
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx pause copyback
This command pauses a copyback operation. You can run this command only when there is a copyback operation running.
Input example:
perccli /c0/e25/s4 pause copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx resume copyback
This command resumes a paused copyback operation. You can run this command only when there is a paused copyback process
for the drive.
Input example:
perccli /c0/e25/s4 resume copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx show copyback
This command shows the progress of the copyback operation in percentage.
Input example:
perccli /c0/e25/s4 show copyback
perccli /cx[/ex]/sx start copyback target=e:s
This command starts a copyback operation for a drive.
Input example:
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