Reference Guide

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................................................................................................................................................................ 20
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...............................................................................................................................34
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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