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
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236 24.388 GB Y - - -
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VD - Virtual drive | OCE - Online Capacity Expansion | WithArrExp - With Array Expansion
NoArrExp - Without Array Expansion
Viewing expansion size
Syntax
perccli /c0/v236 expand size=10
Description
Expands the virtual drive within the existing array.
Example
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = expansion operation succeeded
EXPANSION INFORMATION :
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VD Size FreSpc ReqSize AbsUsrSz %FreSpc NewSize Status NoArrExp
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236 9.765 GB 734.859 GB 10.000 MB 7.347 GB 1 17.113 GB - 734.859
GB
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VD - Virtual drive |Size - Current VD size | FreSpc - Freespace available before
expansion |
AbsUsrSz - User size rounded to nearest % | %FreSpc - Requested expansion size in % of
available free space | NoArrExp - Without Array Expansion
NOTE:
The percentage %FreSpc is calculated by computing (input value of size/free space in the array) * 100 which is
rounded to the nearest percentage. This value is used to compute the AbsUsrSz by multiplying (%FreSpc with the free
space) in the array. The NewSize of the virtual drive or array is calculated by adding the current size of the virtual drive or
array with the AbsUsrSz value.
Viewing the foreign configuration
Syntax
perccli /c0/fall show
Description
Displays the foreign configuration of the selected controller.
Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool
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