Users Guide

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.

Viewing Physical Disk Drives Properties Using

RACADM

To view the properties of physical disk drives using RACADM, run the command racadm raid get pdisks —o

For more information, see the Chassis Management Controller for PowerEdge VRTX RACADM Command Line Reference Guide.

Identifying Physical Disks and Virtual Disks

For more information about enabling or disabling the LED-blink feature, see:

• Configuring LED Blinking Using CMC Web Interface

• Configuring LED Blinking Using RACADM

Assigning Global Hot Spares Using CMC Web

Interface

To assign or unassign a global hot spare:

Managing Chassis Storage

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