Enable Perccli On A Windows Server; Create Virtual Devices With Perccli - Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node 14G Manual

Enable PERCCLI on a Windows server

Create virtual devices with PERCCLI

Enable the PERCCLI disk utility on a VxFlex Ready Node Windows server.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have:
The administrator password to the server on which PERCCLI is to be installed
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Internet access to enable you to download the PERCCLI utility
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Procedure
1. Download PERCCLI from
Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=3PHVH.
2. Extract the ZIP file.
3. Copy the executable files, perccli.exe and perccli64.exe, to:
c:\Windows\System32
Results
PERCCLI can now be used from either the console or via RDP.
Create virtual devices (VDs) on disks using the PERCCLI utility. You need to perform
this step before adding disks to a VxFlex OS SDS server in the VxFlex Ready Node
system.
Note
If the server contains the HBA330 controller, skip this step.
When creating virtual devices, note the following:
You create one virtual device for each kind of disk, HDD or SSD.
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The VDs for HDD are configured with Direct IO, write-back, and read-ahead
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enabled (abbreviated in PERCCLI as RWBD).
The VDs for SSD are configured with Direct IO and write-through, but read-ahead
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is not enabled. (Abbreviated in PERCCLI as NRWTD.)
In the PERCCLI commands that follow, the controller ID is assumed to be 0,
designated by /c0. In some cases, the controller ID may be different, which will cause
a Controller 0 not found error to be displayed. If this occurs, determine your
controller ID by running the following command:
perccli64.exe show
The controller ID is displayed in the System Overview section of the output, in the
Ctl column.
The following table lists different disk configurations on a VxFlex Ready Node server:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/
Enable PERCCLI on a Windows server
Preparing Disks
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