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MegaCli Common Commands and Procedures

Gerald Burgess
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

on ‎04-27-2011 09:09 AM

Introduction

MegaCli commands have presented a number of questions among our users for Cisco's Physical Security.  Here is an attempt to explain thier meaning and uses.

See also: Cisco VSM RAID Viewer

General Parameters

  • Adapter parameter -aN

The parameter -aN (where N is a number starting with zero or the string ALL) specifies the adapter ID. If you have only one controller it’s safe to use ALL instead of a specific ID, but you’re encouraged to use the ID for everything that makes changes to your RAID configuration.

  • Physical drive parameter      -PhysDrv [E:S]

For commands that operate on one or more pysical drives, the -PhysDrv [E:S] parameter is used, where E is the enclosure device ID in which the drive resides and S the slot number (starting with zero). You can get the enclosure device ID using MegaCli -EncInfo -aALL. The E:S syntax is also used for specifying the physical drives when creating a new RAID virtual drive (see 5).

  • Virtual drive parameter -Lx

The parameter -Lx is used for specifying the virtual drive (where x is a number starting with zero or the string all).

Running the executable can be accomplished by:

shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli <cmd>

or

shell> cd /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli
shell> ./MegaCli <cmd>

Gather information

  • Controller information
     MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL
     MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL
     MegaCli -adpeventlog -getevents -f lsi-events.log -a0 -nolog

  • Enclosure information
     MegaCli -EncInfo -aALL

  • Virtual drive information
     MegaCli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL

  • Physical drive information
     MegaCli -PDList -aALL
     MegaCli -PDInfo -PhysDrv [E:S] -aALL

  • Battery backup information      (Cisco MSPs do not have the battery backup unit installed, but in case yours has one)
     MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL
  • Check Battery backup warning on boot.  If this is enabled on an MSP, it will require manual intervention every time the system boots
     MegaCli -AdpGetProp BatWarnDsbl -a0

Controller management

  • Silence active alarm
     MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -aALL

  • Disable alarm
     MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmDsbl -aALL

  • Enable alarm
     MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmEnbl -aALL

  • Disable battery backup warning on system boot
     MegaCli -AdpSetProp BatWarnDsbl -a0

  • Change the adapter rebuild rate to 60%:
     MegaCli -AdpSetProp {RebuildRate -60} -aALL

Virtual drive management

  • Create RAID 0, 1, 5 drive
     MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r(0|1|5) [E:S, E:S, ...] -aN

  • Create RAID 10 drive
     MegaCli -CfgSpanAdd -r10 -Array0[E:S,E:S] -Array1[E:S,E:S] -aN

  • Remove drive
     MegaCli -CfgLdDel -Lx -aN

Physical drive management

  • Set state to offline
     MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  • Set state to online
     MegaCli -PDOnline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  • Mark as missing
     MegaCli -PDMarkMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  • Prepare for removal
     MegaCli -PdPrpRmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

  • Replace missing drive
     MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -ArrayN -rowN -aN

The number N of the Array parameter is from the "Span Reference:" line you get using MegaCli -CfgDsply -aALL, minus the 0x0 part.  For VSM systems it's normally 0.  The number N of the row parameter is the Physical Disk in that span or array starting with zero (it can be but is not always the physical disk’s slot!).

  • Rebuild drive - Drive status should be "Firmware state: Rebuild"
     MegaCli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
     MegaCli -PDRbld -Stop -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
     MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN     
     MegaCli -PDRbld -ProgDsply -physdrv [E:S] -aN
  • Clear drive
     MegaCli -PDClear -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
     MegaCli -PDClear -Stop -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
     MegaCli -PDClear -ShowProg -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
  • Bad to good
     MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[E:S] -aN

     Changes drive in state Unconfigured-Bad to Unconfigured-Good.

Hot spare management

  • Set global hot spare
     MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
  • Remove hot spare
     MegaCli -PDHSP -Rmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
  • Set dedicated hot spare
     MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -Dedicated -ArrayN,M,... -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

Walkthrough: Rebuild a Drive that is marked 'Foreign' when Inserted:

  • Bad to good
    MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv [E:S]  -aALL
  • Clear the foreign setting
     MegaCli -CfgForeign -Clear -aALL
  • Set global hot spare 
     MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

Walkthrough: Change/replace a drive

1. Set the drive offline, if it is not already offline due to an error

     MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

2. Mark the drive as missing

     MegaCli -PDMarkMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

3. Prepare drive for removal

     MegaCli -PDPrpRmv -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

4. Change/replace the drive

5. If you’re using hot spares then the replaced drive should become your new hot spare drive

     MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

6. In case you’re not working with hot spares, you must re-add the new drive to your RAID virtual drive and start the rebuilding

     MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [E:S] -ArrayN -rowN -aN
     MegaCli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN

Gathering Standard logs

On every instance of a hard drive problem with an MSP server, we need to run the following commands to have any information about the problem:

   shell> rm –f MegaSAS.log
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -adpallinfo -a0
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -encinfo -a0
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -ldinfo -lall -a0
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -pdlist -a0
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -adpeventlog -getevents -f lsi-events.log -a0 -nolog
   shell> /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -fwtermlog -dsply -a0 -nolog > lsi-fwterm.log

Collect the MegaSAS.log, lsi-events.log, and the lsi-fwterm.log files from the directory where the commands are run (they can be run from any directory on the MSP server) and attach the logs to the service request. You may use a program such as WinSCP (freeware) to pull the files off of the server.

Comments
Gerald Burgess
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee
‎02-07-2017 12:57 PM

Usage example:

I had a couple systems down at a customer site after a power failure.  When we got to the consoles the 2 systems that were down we saw they were waiting for someone to acknowledge the battery backup was missing on the raid controllers.

After we acknowledged those and allowed them to reboot all the way they came back online.

I disabled that feature on the raid controllers with the command:

MegaCli -AdpSetProp BatWarnDsbl 1 -a0

They had another system that had a degraded raid.

The physical drive (enclosure 16:slot 18) was in an unconfigured(bad) state.  There were no media errors so I'm not sure how it got that way.  Most likely the power hit had just confused the controller for a moment.

I set it to unconfigured(good) with :

MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[16:18] -a0

Then I tried to make it a hot spare so the raid would pull it back into the volume set:

MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv [16:18] -a0

but that failed.

So I looked over the PDinfo for it again and saw it had been marked foreign.  I cleared the foreign flag with:

MegaCli -CfgForeign -Clear -a0

I was then able to make it a hot spare and the raid took the disk over to start its rebuild.

turbide
Level 1
Level 1
‎02-17-2017 06:25 PM

Hi, I have a big problem with one Raid 5 array. Someone known if we can reintroduce a drive mark failed in the array with MegaCli? I explain my problem:

My enclosure has 12 drives. I put 11 disks in Raid 5 and 1 Hot swap Disk. Monday I lost 1 disk. The HSP disk start to rebuild but after some minute, I lost a second disk. Rebuilt stop and I lost all RAID 5 (19TB). But after some manipulation, I was able to repair one disk (I lost disk 5 and after I lost 3, I repair disk 3 by change the electonic board). When I put Disk 3 in the enclosure, MegaCli mark Foreign, Unconfigure(good). I clear the  Foreign but The Array is still Offline  and When I list with command : 

MegaCli -LdPdInfo -aAll

Disk 3 and Disk 5 have still no info.

So, is-it possible to say at the Array that Disk3 are OK and is part of the array and after that I can transfert my data on other disk (I don't have Backup of that Raid 5 Array)?  

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Answer: With the interface of the bios, I add the disk.

 

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