perccli create VD with default initialization

Question

Hi, when creating new virtual drives using perccli (perccli-007.1910.0000.0000-1.noarch) on PERC 740P - I am seeing it do slow initialization the disks instead of fast initialization on adhoc basis.

The current cli command used to do this is something like this -

perccli64 /c0 add vd 1 drives=0,1 WB ra Strip=128

I've checked online for any explicit tags to add to same perccli vd add command to specify it to only do Fast Initialization of disks but couldn't find any

Or is there any check within PowerEdge server that can be used to set default initialization method..

Any help on this would be appreciated, thank you!

DELL-Charles R · Answer

Hello kakashi09,

Virtual drive initialization commands:

perccli /cx/vx start init

This command starts the initialization of a virtual drive. The default initialization type is fast initialization. If the full option is specified, full initialization of the virtual drive starts.

https://dell.to/41JAhA6

Using CLI commands from Windows command prompts

Ensure that you copy the perccli.exe and perccli64.exe files to C:\Windows\System32.

https://dell.to/3m8l1MF

kakashi09 · Answer

Thank you for the quick reply @Dell -Charles R !

So one option would be to use start init - then do a perccli add vd.

Will perccli add vd - do initialization of drives by default? Is there some setting on this that I can just send as a flag?

DELL-Charles R · Answer

Hello kakashi09,

You need a VD first before you can initialize it.

You can try add vd and check result.

I don't see that it specifies initialization

Maybe perccli /cx/vx start init after you create the VD.

I will say that I do not work with perccli. Most work I do is in the GUIs, but this page may give you more options:

Getting a complete list of CLI commands

To view a full list of available CLI commands, use one of the following CLI commands:

perccli64.exe —help > [filename]

perccli64.exe —? > [filename]

https://dell.to/3IBsA6k

You can use the menu on the left side to see each section for support on each step available.

Praveen.Singh · Answer

its an automated process, if it stucks then there are options for manual too

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

perccli create VD with default initialization

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