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Adaptec RAID ControllerCommand Line UtilityUser's Guide
CDP-00284-01-A Rev. A
Issue: July 15, 2013
Page 1: ...Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User s Guide CDP 00284 01 A Rev A Issue July 15 2013...
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Page 3: ...Issue Date Issue Adaptec Firmware BIOS Drivers Utilities Version 1 03 July 15 2013 1 03 3 Proprietary and Confidential to PMC Sierra Inc Document No CDP 00284 01 A Rev A Issue Adaptec RAID Controller...
Page 4: ...nderlist 22 arcconf failover 23 arcconf getconfig 23 arcconf getlogs 24 arcconf getperform 25 arcconf getsmartstats 25 arcconf getstatus 26 arcconf getversion 26 arcconf identify 27 arcconf imageupdat...
Page 5: ...arcconf uninit 45 5 Proprietary and Confidential to PMC Sierra Inc Document No CDP 00284 01 A Rev A Issue Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User s Guide...
Page 6: ...Table 1 ARCCONF Batch Environments 17 Table 2 ARCCONF Commands 17 vi Proprietary and Confidential to PMC Sierra Inc Document No CDP 00284 01 A Rev A Issue Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility...
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Page 12: ...xView Storage Manager To install ARCCONF without the GUI navigate to the folder for your operating system on the installation DVD select the ARCCONF executable then copy to your machine On Linux syste...
Page 13: ...Mount the Adaptec Installation DVD mount dev cdrom mnt cdrom 3 Change to the Debian manager directory Description Options cd mnt cdrom maxview debian_x86 manager 32 bit cd mnt cdrom maxview debian_x8...
Page 14: ...Installing on VMware ESX 4 1 Use the following procedure to install the vib files for VMware ESX 4 1 The installation can be done on an ESX 4 1 console or from a remote system running a Telnet SSH cl...
Page 15: ...Insert and mount the Adaptec Installation DVD 2 Copy the following files to your local ESXi 5 x tmp directory vmware esx provider arcconf vib vmware esx provider arcsmis vib The arcconf vib is for co...
Page 16: ...GOS directory for the remote operating system you want to install 3 Type one of the following commands depending on the operating system Description Options StorMan 9 00 19098 esx86_64 bin Linux setup...
Page 17: ...w a list of commands at the command line type ARCCONF and press Enter To access the online help for a specific command type ARCCONF command then press Enter ARCCONF Commands The following commands are...
Page 18: ...sword Examples ARCCONF ATAPASSWORD 1 SET uR8ryx 0 1 ARCCONF ATAPASSWORD 1 CLEAR uR8ryx 0 1 arcconf consistencycheck Description Toggles the background consistency check modes of the controller Syntax...
Page 19: ...cal drive read caching write caching and maxCache SSD caching You must provide the channel and device ID of the physical devices On redundant logical drives ARCCONF performs autosynchronization ARCCON...
Page 20: ...xCache off MaxCacheWriteCache Sets the logical drive SSD write cache mode ION maxCache on IOFF maxCache off MaxCacheWritePolicy Sets the maxCache write cache policy WB write back enabled maxCache will...
Page 21: ...ler LOGICALDRIVE JBOD ALL noprompt ARCCONF DELETE Controller MAXCACHE Parameters Controller Controller is the controller number LogicalDrive LogicalDrive is the number of the logical drive to be delet...
Page 22: ...C WINDOWSALL arcconf expanderlist Description Returns a list of disk drive expanders on a controller Syntax ARCCONF EXPANDERLIST Controller Parameters Controller Controller number Examples ARCCONF EXP...
Page 23: ...ck device driver and firmware versions Logical drive status RAID level and size maxCache status fetch and flush rate policy read write balance SSD information Device type device ID presence of PFA Phy...
Page 24: ...of defunct devices EVENT A log of special events that may have occurred rebuilds LDMs etc STATS A log of controller usage statistics Syntax ARCCONF GETLOGS Controller Type clear tabular Parameters Con...
Page 25: ...rmance mode parameters in a file Filename Name of the file in which to save the parameters If not specified the default filename is PerformanceMode cfg Nologs Suppresses creation of logs for this comm...
Page 26: ...2 GETSTATUS reports verify clear initialize and secure erase operations on physical devices 3 GETSTATUS reports the status of controller rescan operations 4 GETSTATUS only reports active operations It...
Page 27: ...E Channel ID Parameters Controller Controller number Channel ID Number of the logical drive to be identified Channel Channel number for the device to be identified Device Device number for the device...
Page 28: ...ple of 512 Filename Name of the firmware update file Mode Firmware update mode Valid values for physical devices are 3 SATA Download with offsets and save image for immediate and future use 7 SAS Down...
Page 29: ...raid level to another RAID Level Migration Expands a logical device from original to one with larger capacity Online Capacity Expansion Can be used to make mirrored sets Syntax MODIFY Controller FROM...
Page 30: ...meters Channel is the channel number for the device Drive is the device_ID device number for the device Noprompt is an optional parameter that overrides the user prompt Example ARCCONF MODIFY 1 FROM 2...
Page 31: ...that the controller was configured successfully The exit codes shown below indicate the success or failure of the operation and if the system needs to be rebooted Meaning Value Code Configuration suc...
Page 32: ...ith ARCCONF getstatus see arcconf getstatus on page 26 for more information Syntax ARCCONF RESCAN Controller Parameters Controller The controller number Examples ARCCONF RESCAN 1 arcconf resetstatisti...
Page 33: ...DATE 1 AC220001 UFI ARCCONF ROMUPDATE 1 AS483C newversion 12345 force noprompt arcconf saveconfig Description Note This command is supported on Windows systems only Saves the controller configuration...
Page 34: ...statistics For more information about SMART statistics see arcconf getsmartstats on page 25 The log files are saved in the Support folder in the standard logs directory for your operating system var...
Page 35: ...rs Controller The controller number LogicalDrive The number of the logical drive whose cache will be altered Logical mode Logical drive cache mode RON read cache on ROFF read cache off WT write throug...
Page 36: ...t issues commands to the device Attached drives without Adaptec meta data and without OS partitions are automatically configured as Simple Volumes single drives with Adaptec meta data with these setti...
Page 37: ...ion Enables disables maxCache SSD caching for one or more logical drives updates the maxCache write cache policy and dirty page threshold data not committed to disk adds Solid State Drives to the maxC...
Page 38: ...e allocated to dirty data that is data that has not been committed to disk The threshold value ranges from 1 100 percent Once the percentage of dirty pages crosses the threshold the data are flushed t...
Page 39: ...E 4 1 ARCCONF SETMAXCACHE 1 FLUSHANDFETCHRATE 200 ARCCONF SETMAXCACHE 1 CLEAR arcconf setname Description Renames a logical drive Syntax ARCCONF SETNAME Controller LOGICALDRIVE LogicalDrive New Name P...
Page 40: ...ler Performance Mode nologs Parameters Controller The controller number Performance Mode Behavior Setting Performance criteria adjusts automatically based on controller usage RAID level and disk drive...
Page 41: ...oller the maximum number of drives that the controller may spin up at one time internal The maximum number of internal drives that the controller may spin up at one time from 0 20 external The maximum...
Page 42: ...task to be changed Use arcconf getstatus to obtain the task ID Omit this parameter to set the controller s global background task priority that is the execution priority for all tasks on the controlle...
Page 43: ...ng a consistency check Noprompt No prompt for confirmation Examples ARCCONF SETSTATE 1 DEVICE 0 0 HSP LOGICALDRIVE 1 2 3 ARCCONF SETSTATE 1 DEVICE 0 0 RDY LOGICALDRIVE 2 ARCCONF SETSTATE 1 LOGICALDRIV...
Page 44: ...on a logical drive physical drive or maxCache logical device Syntax General Usage ARCCONF TASK TASK START Controller LOGICALDRIVE LogicalDrive options noprompt TASK STOP Controller LOGICALDRIVE Logic...
Page 45: ...logical drive if bad data is found verify verifies the maxCache Container redundancy without repairing bad data Examples ARCCONF TASK START 1 LOGICALDRIVE 1 VERIFY ARCCONF TASK START 1 DEVICE 0 0 INI...
Page 46: ...sical devices in the Raw or Ready state nologs Suppresses log output for the command Examples ARCCONF UNINIT 1 0 12 0 13 ARCCONF 1 ALL 46 Proprietary and Confidential to PMC Sierra Inc Document No CDP...
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