{"id":266,"date":"2014-10-29T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-10-29T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T18:18:10","slug":"using-storcli-to-create-raid50-arrays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Using storcli to create RAID50 arrays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The storcli command line can be installed on linux, vmware, windows and macos to provide management of raid devices on booted ibm 3650.\u00a0 The MegaRaid GUI provides a guided wizard for RAID50 disk creation, but the storcli command line options aren&#8217;t as clear.\u00a0 It turns out that you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must<\/span> provided an arrangement for the disks in order to create a raid 50 group.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n<pre>.\/storcli \/c0 add vd r50 name=446SSDRaid50 drives=9:3-8 strip=128\r\nController = 0\r\nStatus = Failure\r\nDescription = operation not possible for current RAID level, Invalid RAID level\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above fails because it is missing the pdperarray options, which tells storcli how to arrange the disks:<\/p>\n<pre>\/opt\/StorCLI # .\/storcli \/c0 add vd type=raid50 name=446SSDRaid50 drives=9:6-11  \\\r\npdperarray=3 strip=128\r\nController = 0\r\nStatus = Success\r\nDescription = Add VD Succeeded<\/pre>\n<p>Click\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mycusthelp.info\/LSI\/_cs\/AnswerPreview.aspx?sSessionID=6624969223FZTJUGRFBYCYKIMHMLGGQBLGNAHNNK&amp;inc=8442\" title=\"StorCLI Examples\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><br \/>\nfor some further examples of the storcli command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The storcli command line can be installed on linux, vmware, windows and macos to provide management of raid devices on booted ibm 3650.\u00a0 The MegaRaid GUI provides a guided wizard for RAID50 disk creation, but the storcli command line options aren&#8217;t as clear.\u00a0 It turns out that you must provided an arrangement for the disks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,104,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}