Deployment Guide

RAIDCFG

This section documents the Deployment Toolkit (DTK) RAID configuration utility. The RAIDCFG utility provides a single command

line tool that can configure all supported RAID controllers.

Features

The RAID configuration utility:

• Displays help and usage information.

• Reads configuration options from the Command Line Interface (CLI) parameters.

• Enumerates RAID controllers, physical disks, and virtual disks.

• Creates and deletes virtual disks.

• Logs activity to a given filename.

• Returns specific error codes and messages.

• Assigns and unassigns global and dedicated hot spares.

NOTE: In Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE), you can find the RAIDCFG utility at \DELL

\x32\TOOLKIT\TOOLS or at \DELL\x64\TOOLKIT\TOOLS. In Linux, you can find it at/opt/dell/toolkit/bin.

Supported RAID Controllers

The RAIDCFG utility supports the following RAID controllers:

• PERC FD33xD and PERC FD33xS

• PERC H830 Adapter, PERC H330 Adapter, PERC H330 Embedded, PERC H730 Adapter, and PERC H730P Adapter

• PERC H330 Mini Monolithic, PERC H730 Mini Monolithic, and PERC H730P Mini Monolithic

• PERC H310 Adapter, PERC H310 Mini Blade, PERC H310 Mini Monolithic, PERC H310 Embedded, PERC H710 Mini Blade, PERC

H710P Mini Blade, PERC H710 Adapter, and PERC H710 Adapter

• PERC H200 Integrated, PERC H200 Adapter, PERC H200 Embedded, PERC H700 Integrated, PERC H700 Adapter, and PERC

H800 Adapter

• PERC 6/E Adapter, PERC 6/I Integrated, and PERC 6/I Adapter

• PERC 6/I Integrated for blade systems

• PERC 5/E Adapter, PERC 5/I Integrated, and PERC 5/I Adapter

• PERC S110, PERC S100, PERC S130, and PERC S300 software controller

• SAS 6iR Integrated and SAS 6iR Adapter

• SAS 5iR Integrated and SAS 5iR Adapter

RAIDCFG Options And Arguments

Table below lists all of the valid options, parameters, and arguments for the RAIDCFG utility. For more information on valid RAIDCFG

options and their specific uses, see RAID Configuration Utility Options and Arguments.

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