Enabling Or Disabling Raid Controller Using Racadm; Enabling Or Disabling Fault Tolerance Of External Raid Controller Using Racadm; Viewing Physical Disk Properties Using The Cmc Web Interface - Dell EMC PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

NOTE:
– For a disabled PERC, none of the other options Reset Configuration, Export TTY Log, Discard Pinned Cache, and
Disable RAID Controller are available in the drop-down menu.
– By default the two integrated shared storage adapters are detected with high availability mode.
– You must enable Fault Tolerance mode on the external shared controller after it is cabled.
– Enable Fault Tolerance and Disable Fault Tolerance are displayed only for the External Shared PERC 8 cards. The
default mode of the External Shared PERC 8 cards is the non-fault-tolerant mode.
NOTE: Enabling or disabling a peer controller initiates a chassis power cycle. The changes are reflected only after the
power cycle is complete.

Enabling or Disabling RAID Controller Using RACADM

To enable a peer controller using RACADM, open a serial/Telnet/SSH text console to CMC, log in, and enter:
racadm raid enableperc:<AdapterFQDD>
To disable a peer controller, enter:
racadm raid disableperc:<AdapterFQDD>
NOTE: For more information on this feature using the RACADM interface see the
Guide for iDRAC and CMC .
Enabling or disabling fault tolerance of external RAID controller using
RACADM
To enable the fault tolerance:
racadm raid controllers: <FQDD of External Shared PERC8> -p HighAvailabilityMode ha
To disable the fault tolerance:
racadm raid set controllers: <FQDD of External Shared PERC8> -p HighAvailabilityMode None

Viewing Physical Disk Properties Using the CMC Web Interface

Make sure that physical disks are installed on the chassis.
To view the properties of physical disk drives:
1. In the left pane, go to Chassis Overview → Storage → Physical Disks.
The Properties page is displayed.
2. To view properties of all the physical disk drives, under the Physical Disks section, click the
NOTE: The following attributes are displayed for fault-tolerant mode of integrated shared adapters:
• Active controller — Shared PERC8 (Integrated 1)
• Redundant/Failover controller — Shared PERC8 (Integrated 2)
The following attributes are displayed for fault-tolerant mode of external shared adapters:
• Active controller — Shared PERC8 (SPERC Slot 5)
• Redundant/Failover controller — Shared PERC8 (SPERC Slot 6)
You can also use the following filters to view specific physical disk drive's properties:
• Under the Basic Physical Disks Filter option , from the Group By drop-down menu, select Virtual Disk, Controller, or
Enclosure, and then click Apply.
• Click Advanced Filter, select the values for various attributes, and then click Apply.
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