How to Install PERCCLI on Red Hat Ubuntu ESXi and Windows

Here's how to install the PowerEdge RAID Controller Command Line Interface (PERCCLI) on Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, VMWare ESXi, and Windows Server.

Hi there. My name is Ricky. I'm a senior engineer for the power edge platform team. And today I'm going to show you how to transfer and install the Perc cli utility in Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, VMWARE, ESX, I and Microsoft Windows, starting with the Red Hat installation I have here. I'm gonna go ahead and go to activities and open up the terminal and I'm gonna change to the root user. So I don't have to type in pseudo for everything and I'm gonna move to the temp directory and just work out of that as an example.

Now, the first step is to get the Percy I utility over to this server. If you have the file downloaded on a remote workstation, you can transfer this over in different ways. I have SSH services. So I'm using an FTP client that can transfer using S FTP protocol. You can use FTP clients such as we SEP or file Zilla. In this example, I'm using Win SCP on my Windows workstation and you can see the folder on the left as the different Percy light utilities for the different operating systems. I'm going to put the IP address of this server that I want to transfer the file to put in the credentials, accept the key here.

And now you can see I'm connected to the server and can browse the file system. I'll navigate to the temp directory, just something I'm using as an example and then transfer over the perks eli utility file. Now that the file is transferred all LS to look at the contents of the directory. And you can see right there the perky I utility. I'm going to delete the file and show another method of getting the perky I utility using W get. I'm going to browse to the Dell support page that has the utility go to the download link and copy that link address back on the local server. I'll type the command W get and then using the I Drax virtual console, virtual clipboard. I'll paste the link and send it to the local server.

As you can see the entire link was paced to the local server hit, enter. And now you can see the perks ya utility is downloading the Percy I utility file is a tar file. So we need to extract the contents first, we'll type the command tar space with parameters XZVF space capital P and then you can hit tab to automatically finish the line hit, enter. And now you can see the Perky I utility has extracted and there's a Perky I directory that we can move into navigating into the directory. We can see the contents and we'll be using the R PM file for this red hat installation type the command R PM space dash. IVH space, the first letter of the R PM file, hit tab to finish and then hit, enter. And you can see the perk cli utility is now installed. Now, we can navigate to the installed directory.

We'll start by going to opt, I'll list that out. You'll see the Megara directory go into that list that you'll see the Perk CLI directory. And when we go into that directory, we can now see the perc cli 64 utility by typing dot forward slash. And then the name of the utility, we can now begin to run commands such as show as you can see, it will list basic information such as showing me, I have one controller, the HB a 330 mini that single controller enumerates as zero. So we can reference that in a new command and have it show details about that controller. And you see it gives information such as the SAS address and driver version moving on to the ubuntu server.

The steps are very similar to that of red hat. I'm going to apply pseudo privileges. So I don't have to type pseudo for every command. If you have SSH credentials, you can use an FTP client like we did with Red hat here. I will just quickly use the W get command and the URL to the file, we will use the same tar command to extract the contents. And now because we are in Ubuntu, we'll be using the dot Deb Debian file type, the command DPKG space, hyphen I space the utility name hit enter and you can see it's installed, we'll navigate to the same folder and invoke it in the same way. And you can see if we can now start running our perk cli commands. Now we'll move on to ESX I. This is a fresh install. So first I'll hit F two and log in. I'm going to go to troubleshooting options and enable the ESX I shell and enable SSH using the IP address shown here.

You can use an FTP client as we did on the Linux servers. In this example, I'm going to use the IP address and type it into a browser to access the host web client. Here, we'll go ahead and click on storage, click on the data store. Now we can use the data store browser and begin to upload the file. The VM ware Perky I utility comes in a dot zip. I've extracted that out and I'm drilling down into the directories to find the VIP file and uploading that back to the server console. Now hitting the keys. Alt and F one, I can access the command line shell log in. And now I'm going to navigate to the data store directory and here you can see the percy vib file type in the command to install the VIB file giving an absolute path hit enter. And you can see perks I has now been installed like the Linux examples.

I will navigate to the OP directory, but instead of having a Megara directory within there, we will navigate to the L SI directory. Here. We can see the Percy I utility and just like the Linux examples, we can begin running our commands last but not least we'll take a look at a Windows installation. I've navigated to download the perc cli utility. Here it is in my download folder. I'll go ahead and run it. It will extract. But for this example, I'm gonna change the default location to just a per cli directory on the C drive.

Once extracted, the utility will be in that directory and you only need to reference it from the command line. Easiest way to do that is type C MD in the address bar and it will open the command line at that directory and now we can begin running our commands that concludes this video.

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