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

Enable PERCCLI on a host server

Create virtual devices with PERCCLI

Enable the PERCCLI disk utility on a VxFlex Ready Node host server.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have:
Root access 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
perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm.
2. Copy the installation file, perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm, to the /tmp
folder on the node.
3. From the Linux console or via SSH, install the PERCCLI package:
rpm -Uvh /tmp/perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm
Results
PERCCLI is ready for use.
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:
/opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli64 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://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER03559396M/1/
Enable PERCCLI on a host server
Preparing Disks
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