Reference Guide

NOTE: The Start or Stop a Blink feature is not supported for HHHL PCIe SSD
devices.
• To prepare the PCIeSSD drive for removal, run the following command:
racadm storage preparetoremove <PCIeSSD FQDD>
NOTE: The Prepare to Remove task is not supported for HHHL PCIe SSD
devices.
• To perform a secure erase operation on PCIeSSD device, run the following
command:
racadm storage secureerase:<PCIeSSD FQDD>
NOTE: You can also run the command using raid in place of the storage
command.
Input
• -o — Specifies the optimized version.
• -p — Specifies the property name.
• --refkey — Specifies the controller or enclosure FQDDs.
• -rl — Sets the storage level.
– r0 — storage 0-Striping
– r1 — storage 1-Mirroring
– r5 — storage 5-Striping with Parity
– r6 — storage 6-Striping with Extra Parity
– r10 — storage 10-Spanned Striping with Mirroring
– r50 — storage 50-Spanned Striping with Parity
– r60 — storage 60-Spanned Striping with Extra Parity
• -wp{wt|wb|wbf} — Sets the write policy to Write Through, Write Back, or Write
Back Force
• -rp {nra|ra|ara} — Sets the read policy to No Read Ahead, Read Ahead,
Adaptive Read Ahead
• -ss — Specifies the stripe size to use.
• -pdkey:<PD FQDD list> — Specifies the physical disk drive to use in the virtual
disk.
• -dcp — Sets the Disk Cache Policy in the Virtual Disk.
– enabled — Allows the virtual disk to use the cache.
– disabled — Does not allow the virtual disk to use the cache.
– default — Uses the default cache policy. For SAS drives, use the disabled
option and for SATA drives, use the enabled option by default.
• -name <VD name> — Specifies the name of the virtual disk.
• -size <VD size> — Specifies the size of each virtual disk.
– b — Specifies the size in bytes
– k — Specifies the size in kilobytes
– m — Specifies the size in megabytes
– g — Specifies the size in gigabytes
– t — Specifies the size in terabytes
• -sc — Number of spans in a virtual disk (required for multi-span RAID level).
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