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Perc Cheat Sheet

This document provides an emergency cheat sheet for using the MegaCli utility to manage a Dell PERC5/i integrated RAID controller. It begins with requirements and conventions for using MegaCli, then provides examples for gathering information about the controller, virtual drives, physical drives, and battery backup. Sections also cover managing the controller, virtual drives, physical drives, hot spares, and replacing a failed drive.

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Perc Cheat Sheet

This document provides an emergency cheat sheet for using the MegaCli utility to manage a Dell PERC5/i integrated RAID controller. It begins with requirements and conventions for using MegaCli, then provides examples for gathering information about the controller, virtual drives, physical drives, and battery backup. Sections also cover managing the controller, virtual drives, physical drives, hot spares, and replacing a failed drive.

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DELL PERC5/i Integrated - Emergency Cheat Sheet 1

DELL PERC5/i Integrated (LSI Logic MegaRAID)


– Emergency Cheat Sheet –
Moritz Mertinkat
moritz AT mertinkat DOT net

Version 1.3, 2008-05-20


http://tools.rapidsoft.de/perc

1 Requirements and general information


DELL’s PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) is a special LSI Logic SAS/SATA RAID Con-
troller and thus the LSI management utility called MegaCli also works for this controller. For
older controllers like PERC4 and PERC3 please refer to http://linux.dell.com/storage.
shtml (keyword DellMgr).

MegaCli is available for Linux, DOS, Windows, Netware and Solaris.


You can get it from LSI’s website (search for MegaRAID SAS) or download it here: http://
www.lsi.com/support/downloads/megaraid/miscellaneous/linux/1.01.40_Linux_Cli.
zip.

Inside the ZIP file you’ll find an RPM archive which contains the MegaCli and MegaCli64
binaries (will be installed to /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli).

Please note:
This emergency cheat sheet is not exhaustive, but it should be sufficient in most cases. For a
complete reference either call MegaCli -h or refer to the manual at: http://www.lsi.com/
files/docs/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/sas/mr_sas_sw_ug.pdf (Chapter 3 – Mega-
RAID Command Tool).

2 MegaCli conventions
While there are a lot of different parameters for MegaCli, some of them are always identical.
These are described here in short.

• Adapter parameter -aN


The parameter -aN (where N is a number starting with zero or the string ALL)
specifies the PERC5/i adapter ID. If you have only one controller it’s safe to use ALL
instead of a specific ID, but you’re encouraged to use the ID for everything that makes
changes to your RAID configuration.

• Physical drive parameter -PhysDrv [E:S]


For commands that operate on one or more pysical drives, the -PhysDrv [E :S ] para-
meter is used, where E is the enclosure device ID in which the drive resides and S the

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slot number (starting with zero). You can get the enclosure device ID using MegaCli
”
-EncInfo -aALL“. The E:S syntax is also used for specifying the physical drives when
creating a new RAID virtual drive (see Virtual drive management).

• Virtual drive parameter -Lx


The parameter -Lx is used for specifying the virtual drive (where x is a number starting
with zero or the string all ).

3 Gather information
• Controller information
MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL
MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL
MegaCli -AdpEventLog -GetEvents -f events.log -aALL && cat events.log

• Enclosure information
MegaCli -EncInfo -aALL

• Virtual drive information


MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL

• Physical drive information


MegaCli -PDList -aALL
MegaCli -PDInfo -PhysDrv [E:S] -aALL

• Battery backup information


MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL

4 Controller management
• Silence active alarm
MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -aALL

• Disable alarm
MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmDsbl -aALL

• Enable alarm
MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmEnbl -aALL

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5 Virtual drive management


• Create RAID 0, 1, 5 drive
MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r(0|1|5) [E:S, E:S, ...] -aN

• Create RAID 10 drive


MegaCli -CfgSpanAdd -r10 -Array0[E:S,E:S] -Array1[E:S,E:S] -aN

• Remove drive
MegaCli -CfgLdDel -Lx -aN

6 Physical drive management


• Set state to offline
MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Set state to online


MegaCli -PDOnline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Mark as missing
MegaCli -PDMarkMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Prepare for removal


MegaCli -PdPrpRmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Replace missing drive


MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -ArrayN -rowN -aN
The number N of the array parameter is the Span Reference you get using MegaCli
”
-CfgDsply -aALL“ and the number N of the row parameter is the Physical Disk in
that span or array starting with zero (it’s not the physical disk’s slot!).

• Rebuild drive
MegaCli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
MegaCli -PDRbld -Stop -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Clear drive
MegaCli -PDClear -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
MegaCli -PDClear -Stop -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
MegaCli -PDClear -ShowProg -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Bad to good
MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[E:S] -aN
Changes drive in state Unconfigured-Bad to Unconfigured-Good.

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7 Hot spare management


• Set global hot spare
MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Remove hot spare


MegaCli -PDHSP -Rmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

• Set dedicated hot spare


MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -Dedicated -ArrayN,M,... -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

8 Walkthrough: Change/replace a drive


1. Set the drive offline, if it is not already offline due to an error
MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

2. Mark the drive as missing


MegaCli -PDMarkMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

3. Prepare drive for removal


MegaCli -PDPrpRmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

4. Change/replace the drive

5. If you’re using hot spares then the replaced drive should become your new
hot spare drive
MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

6. In case you’re not working with hot spares, you must re-add the new drive
to your RAID virtual drive and start the rebuilding
MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -ArrayN -rowN -aN
MegaCli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

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