PowerEdge: Managing the PowerEdge RAID Controller with PERCCLI

Managing PERC Controllers with PERCCLI

Virtual Disk (VD) Management

Control consistency checks, preserved cache, and virtual disks using the commands below:

• Pause a consistency check
• Resume a consistency check
• Show consistency check status
• Start a consistency check
• Stop a consistency check
• Delete preserved cache
• Show preserved cache
• Delete a virtual disk
• Create a virtual disk

# Pause consistency check
perccli /cX/vY pause cc

# Resume consistency check
perccli /cX/vY resume cc

# Show consistency check status
perccli /cX/vY show cc

# Start consistency check (add "force" if required)
perccli /cX/vY start cc [force]

# Stop consistency check
perccli /cX/vY stop cc

# Delete preserved cache (add "force" if required)
perccli /cX/vY delete preservedCache [force]

# Show preserved cache
perccli /cX show preservedCache

# Delete a virtual disk (use "all" to delete all VDs)
perccli /cX/vY|all del

# Create a virtual disk (example)
perccli /cX add vd r5 size=500GB name=VD1 drives=1:0-3 pdperarray=4 pdcache=on wt wb strip=128 force

Physical Disk Management

Use the following commands to view, configure, locate, and assign hot spares for physical disks.

• Show drive information
• Set drive state (JBOD, good, offline, online)
• Start/stop drive locate LED
• Add or delete a hot spare drive
• Manage foreign configurations

# Show a specific drive (controller X, enclosure Y, slot Z)
perccli /cX/eY/sZ show

# Show all drives on a controller
perccli /cX/eall/sall show

# Show all drives with detailed information
perccli /cX/eY/sZ|sall show all

# Show drives in JBOD mode
perccli /cX/eY/sall show jbod
perccli /cX/eY/sZ show jbod

# Set a drive to JBOD
perccli /cX/eY/sZ set jbod

# Set a drive to GOOD (add "force" if required)
perccli /cX/eY/sZ set good [force]

# Set a drive OFFLINE
perccli /cX/eY/sZ set offline

# Set a drive ONLINE
perccli /cX/eY/sZ set online

# Start locate LED on a drive
perccli /cX/eY/sZ start locate

# Stop locate LED on a drive
perccli /cX/eY/sZ stop locate

# Add a hot‑spare drive (optional DG list, enclosure affinity, non‑revertible)
perccli /cX/eY/sZ add hotsparedrive [DGs=0,1,2][enclaffinity][nonrevertible]

# Delete a hot‑spare drive
perccli /cX/eY/sZ delete hotsparedrive

# Delete foreign configuration (add security key if required)
perccli /cX/fx|fall del [securitykey=sssssssssss]

# Import foreign configuration (preview optional)
perccli /cX/fx|fall import [preview][securitykey=sssssssssss]

# Show foreign configuration (add "all" to list all)
perccli /cX/fx|fall show [all][securitykey=sssssssssss]

For installation of PERCCLI refer to: PowerEdge: How to Install PERCCLI utility on Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, VMware ESXi, and Windows Server

PERC 9/10/11 Command-line guide - https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-in/perc-h750-sas/perc_cli_rg/Overview?guid=guid-85a3c53c-4b87-42be-a787-7ed23993297f&lang=en-us

PERC 11/12 Command-line guide - https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/perc-h965i-mx/perc12_cli_rg/working-with-the-perc-command-line-interface-tool?guid=guid-d44fef6f-7a59-4612-a65e-0bdc9e0dd842&lang=en-us