Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller Command Line Interface Reference Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Accessing the command prompt
- Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool
- System commands
- Controller commands
- Drive commands
- Virtual drives commands
- Add virtual drives commands
- Delete virtual drives commands
- Delete non-RAID disks
- Virtual drive show commands
- Preserved cache commands
- Change virtual drive properties commands
- Virtual drive initialization commands
- Virtual drive erase commands
- Virtual drive migration commands
- Virtual drive consistency check commands
- Background initialization commands
- Foreign configurations commands
- BIOS-related commands
- Drive group commands
- BBU commands
- Enclosure commands
- PHY commands
- Logging commands
- PERC CLI command examples
- Getting a complete list of CLI commands
- Checking controller availability
- Viewing controllers
- Viewing free space information
- Viewing disk1 information
- Viewing controller, virtual disk, and drivers information
- Checking for preserved cache
- Deleting preserved cache
- Viewing expansion information
- Viewing expansion size
- Viewing the foreign configuration
- Importing the foreign configuration
- Viewing BBU information
- Viewing physical drive details for the specified slot in the controller
- Viewing the boot drive for the controller
- Setting virtual drive as boot drive
- Locating a drive
- Stopping a locate operation
- Snapdump commands
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
perccli /cx show
This command shows the summary of the controller information. The summary includes basic controller information, foreign
configurations, drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, enclosures, and BBU information.
Input example:
perccli /c1 show
perccli /cx show all <logfile>
This command shows all of the controller information, including basic controller information, bus information, controller
status, advanced software options, controller policies, controller defaults, controller capabilities, scheduled tasks, miscellaneous
properties, foreign configurations, drive groups, virtual drives, physical drives, enclosures, and BBU information.
If you use the logfile option in the command syntax, the logs are written to the specified file. If you do not specify the file name,
then the logs are written to the percas.log file. If you do not use the logfile option in the command syntax, the entire log output
is printed to the console.
Ensure that the filename does not contain a blank space.
Input example:
perccli /c0 show all logfile=log.txt
perccli /cx show freespace
This command shows the usable free space in the controller.
Input example:
perccli /c0 show freespace
perccli /cx show sasadd
This command displays the SAS address of the specified controller.
Input example:
perccli /c1 show sasadd
perccli [verbose] -h| -help| ?
This command displays the perccli help.
Input example:
perccli —h
perccli /cx restart
Using this command, you can reset a specific controller or reset all controllers connected to the host. This command resets the
chip hardware and reinitializes all the chip information.
Input example:
perccli /c1 restart
perccli —v
This command displays the version of the command line tool.
Input example:
perccli —v
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Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool