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
Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 2: Accessing the command prompt.................................................................................. 6
Using CLI commands from Windows command prompts.......................................................................................... 6
Using CLI commands in Linux........................................................................................................................................... 6
Using CLI commands in VMware..................................................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 3: Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool..................................................7
System commands.............................................................................................................................................................. 7
System show commands............................................................................................................................................. 8
Controller commands..........................................................................................................................................................8
Show and set controller properties commands......................................................................................................8
Controller show commands....................................................................................................................................... 12
Controller background tasks operation commands..............................................................................................13
Patrol Read.................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Consistency check....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Controller security commands.................................................................................................................................. 16
Flashing controller firmware command................................................................................................................... 17
Controller cache command........................................................................................................................................ 18
Controller profile commands..................................................................................................................................... 18
HBA controller commands......................................................................................................................................... 18
Drive commands.................................................................................................................................................................21
Drive show commands................................................................................................................................................ 21
Missing drives commands..........................................................................................................................................22
Drive initialization commands................................................................................................................................... 23
Set drive state commands........................................................................................................................................ 23
Locate drives commands........................................................................................................................................... 24
Prepare to remove drives commands.....................................................................................................................25
Dimmer switch commands........................................................................................................................................ 25
Drive security commands.......................................................................................................................................... 26
Drive erase commands............................................................................................................................................... 27
Rebuild drives commands.......................................................................................................................................... 28
Drive copyback commands....................................................................................................................................... 29
Hot spare drive commands....................................................................................................................................... 30
Virtual drives commands.................................................................................................................................................. 31
Add virtual drives commands.................................................................................................................................... 31
Delete virtual drives commands...............................................................................................................................33
Delete non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................................34
Virtual drive show commands...................................................................................................................................34
Preserved cache commands.....................................................................................................................................35
Change virtual drive properties commands.......................................................................................................... 35
Virtual drive initialization commands.......................................................................................................................38
Virtual drive erase commands.................................................................................................................................. 38
Virtual drive migration commands...........................................................................................................................39
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