R720XD - RAID consistency check

Question

I have two R720XD servers in a home lab. Both have PERC H710P mini's, iDrac7 Enterprise and both have esxi as the OS. One has RAID10.

I do not currently have OMSA installed anywhere but I can install it if need be but I'd rather not unless someone can point out a compelling reason.

What is the best way for me to run a RAID consistency check and how can I check the status?

I tried the following:

Log into iDrac
Navigate to: Storage->Virtual Disks->Manage
Select the Check Consistency action from the drop-down box for the virtual disk with RAID10
Clicked the Apply button and rebooted the system

How do I check the status? I ran the following command but it only returns a couple of old jobs that were ran when the system was built:

racadm jobqueue view

jeffx2 · Accepted Answer

I figured it out. Thank you to those that responded. Install the VMware PERCCLI utility on the ESXi server. When running any of the commands, be sure to include the controller and the virtual disc in the command. This will NOT work: ./perccli /c0 show cc​ This works: ./perccli /c0/v1 show cc​

DELL-Young E · Answer

https://dell.to/3WH0cW4     RAID And Storage Configuration using RACADM Commands in iDRAC7

jeffx2 · Answer

Thanks but I already read that document. Maybe I'm not understanding how the consistency check works but I did not see a command to check the status.

I also tried the following command:

racadm storage ccheck:Disk.Virtual.1:RAID.Integrated.1-1

I got this error:

ERROR: STOR013 : One or more Storage device(s) are not in a state where the
 operation can be completed.
Make sure the specified storage devices are in a state appropriate for
the requested operation and retry the operation.

So I don't know if that error indicates that a previous consistency check is still running or something else.

DELL-Young E · Answer

Hello could you try this? from the link page 12,
1.6 storage configuration commands
1. To list all the available controllers:

$ racadm get storage.controller.

RAID.controller.1 [Key=RAID.Integrated.1-1#Controller]

2. To list all the supported attributes of controller 1

$ racadm get storage.controller.1.

jeffx2 · Answer

racadm get storage.controller Storage.controller.1 [Key=RAID.Integrated.1-1#Controller]racadm get storage.controller.1 [Key=RAID.Integrated.1-1#Controller] BackgroundInitializationRate=30 #BatteryLearnMode=Not supported CheckConsistencyMode=Normal CheckConsistencyRate=30 ControllerBootMode=User Mode CopybackMode=ON #CurrentControllerMode=Not Supported EnhancedAutoImportForeignConfig=Disabled PatrolReadMode=Automatic PatrolReadRate=30 PatrolReadUnconfiguredArea=Enabled PersistHotspare=Disabled PossibleloadBalancedMode=Auto RebuildRate=30 ReconstructRate=30 #RequestedControllerMode=Not Supported #SupportControllerBootMode=Supported #SupportEnhancedAutoForeignImport=Supported #SupportRAID10UnevenSpans=Not Supported #T10PICapability=Not Capable

DELL-Erman O · Answer

Hi, I can recommend also the below links. Please take a look:

RAID Controller 9, 10, and 11 Command Line Interface Reference Guide page 15 https://dell.to/3GwkBaM

H310, H710, H710P,and H810 User’s Guide page 43 https://dell.to/3IhIKDl

PERC - How to perform a 'Check Consistency' using OpenManage Server Administrator https://dell.to/3Ie6JDn

jeffx2 · Answer

ESXi 7 is installed on my R720XD server.

Which version of the PERCCLI utility do I need to install?

The one listed under drivers for the R720XD only supports up to VMware ESXi 6.7. The PERCCLI utility listed under drivers for the R730XD supports up to VMware ESXi 7 but it does not list the R720XD as being supported.

DELL-Chris H · Answer

Jeffx2,   From what I see the latest supported version of ESXi for the R720xd is 6.5, as seen on the support page for the R720xd, so the latest supported PERCCLI would be found here.

jeffx2 · Answer

So here is what I get after installing PERCCLI in ESX1 7:

[root@esxi-2:/opt/lsi/perccli] ./perccli /c0 show cc
CLI Version = 007.0529.0000.0000 Sep 18, 2018
Operating system = VMkernel 7.0.3
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = None


Controller Properties :
=====================

-----------------------------------
Ctrl_Prop                 Value
-----------------------------------
CC Operation Mode         Disabled
CC Execution Delay        168
CC Current State          Stopped
CC Number of iterations   0
CC Number of VD completed 0
CC Excluded VDs           None
-----------------------------------

I get the same result even after running:

./perccli /c0/v1 start cc

I ran ./perccli /c0/v1 show all so I know I am specifying the correct virtual drive in the other commands.

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

R720XD - RAID consistency check

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