Saturday, 25 October 2014

MegaCli installation

Before start installing the MegaRAIDCli please ensure that you are using a MegaRAID Controller(hardware arid with newly reloaded systems may be not shows the same due to command not found.)
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lspci -nn | grep RAID
02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] [1000:0079] (rev 04)

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Download the software
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http://www.lsi.com/Search/Pages/downloads.aspx?k=MegaCLI%20-%20Linux


Search >> megacli
          you can see the file under in the management software
          Click download
      Accept
Upload via Filzila
Note: Direct wget will note work fine

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Extract the file

Change to temp directory
        cd /tmp
Copy the zip to your current location
        cp /home/(username)/(path_to_zip)/ .
Unzip the software
        unzip (version)_MegaCLI.zip
        unzip CLI_Lin_(version).zip
        unzip MegaCliLin.zip
Installing software using RPM
Run the following commands to install the libraries and the MegaCli Binaries
rpm -i Lib_Utils-(version).noarch.rpm
rpm -i MegaCli-(version).noarch.rpm
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After installing the binaries will be located in the following location:

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64


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Display Adapter Status

The following command will give you:

    Global information/settings on the physical adapter
    Adapter capabilities (RAID levels, Drive Types)
    Image/Firmware Revisions
    Serial Number
    Product Name

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpAllInfo -aAll


/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -LDInfo -Lall -aAll

Viewing Physical Disk Info

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aAll


Thanks for Viewing ....

Sree

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