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1 Introduction
Storage or RAID configuration is made easy on iDRAC7 1.50.50 and later versions by supporting through
RACADM commands. With this support, you can easily and quickly configure RAID configurations and also
monitor the status of each controller, physical disk drive, and virtual disk properties. The main advantage is
that the user can easily write scripts, automate the configurations, and also run the scripts to perform a
reliability test.
1.1 RAID Monitory Commands
The monitory commands are used to view the details about controllers, physical disk drives, virtual disks,
and their attributes values.
The command syntaxes with examples are explained here:
$ racadm raid get pdisks
Will only retrieve the controllers keys. That is, FQDDs.
$ racadm raid get pdisks
Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
Disk.Bay.2:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
Disk.Bay.3:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
Disk.Bay.4:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
The option “–o” can be used in the command to obtain optimized version of full physical disks objects
along with their keys. For example,
$ racadm raid get pdisks -o
Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
Status = Ok
DeviceDescription = Disk 0 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID
Controller 1
RollupStatus = Ok
Name = Physical Disk 0:1:0
State = Online