MegaCLI cheatsheet

Inside the tarball or zip file you’ll find an RPM archive which contains the megacli and megacli64 binaries (will be installed to /opt/MegaRAID/megacli).

Please note

This emergency cheat sheet is not exhaustive, but it should be sufficient in most cases. For a complete reference either call megacli -h or refer to the manual at: LSI megacli Manual

While there are a lot of different parameters for megacli, some of them are always identical. These are described here in short.

Adapter parameter `-aN`

The parameter -aN (where N is a number starting with zero or the string ALL) specifies the PERC5/i 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 physical 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.

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).

Controller information

megacli -AdpAllInfo -aALL
megacli -CfgDsply -aALL
megacli -AdpEventLog -GetEvents -f events.log -aALL && cat events.log

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

megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL

Controller management

Silence active alarm

megacli -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -aALL

Disable alarm

megacli -AdpSetProp AlarmDsbl -aALL

Enable alarm

megacli -AdpSetProp AlarmEnbl -aALL

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 the Span Reference you get using:

megacli -CfgDsply -aALL

The number N of the row parameter is the Physical Disk in that span or array starting with zero (it’s not the physical disk’s slot!).

Rebuild drive

megacli -PDRbld -Start -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
megacli -PDRbld -Stop -PhysDrv [E:S] -aN
megacli -PDRbld -ShowProg -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 (or back to good as I like to call it)

megacli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv[E:S] -aN

This changes drive in state Unconfigured-Bad to Unconfigured-Good.

Walkthrough: Change/replace a drive

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

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

Mark the drive as missing

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

Prepare drive for removal

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

Change/replace the drive

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

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

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

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