Dell iDRAC8 manual Resetting Controller Configuration, Clearing Foreign Configuration Using Racadm

physical disk contains a foreign configuration (virtual disk) by checking the physical disk state. If the physical disk state is Foreign, then the physical disk contains all or some portion of a virtual disk. You can clear or erase the virtual disk information from the newly attached physical disks.

The Clear Foreign Configuration operation permanently erases all data residing on the physical disks that are added to the controller. If more than one foreign virtual disk is present, all the configurations are erased. You may prefer to import the virtual disk rather than destroy the data. An initialization must be performed to remove foreign data. If you have an incomplete foreign configuration which cannot be imported, you can use the Clearing Foreign Configuration option to erase the foreign data on the physical disks.

Clearing Foreign Configuration Using Web Interface

To clear the foreign configuration:

1.In the iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Storage → Controllers → Setup. The Setup Controllers page is displayed.

2.In the Foreign Configuration section, from the Controller drop-down menu, select the controller for which you want to clear the foreign configuration.

3.From the Apply Operation Mode drop-down menu, select when you want to clear the data.

4.Click Clear.

Based on the selected operation mode, the virtual disks residing on the physical disk is erased.

Clearing Foreign Configuration Using RACADM

To clear foreign configuration, use the following command:

racadm storage clearconfig:<Controller FQDD>

For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Reference Guide available at dell.com/ esmmanuals.

Resetting Controller Configuration

You can reset the configuration for a controller. This operation deletes virtual disk drives and unassigns all hot spares on the controller. It does not erase any data other than removing the disks from the configuration. Reset configuration also does not remove any foreign configurations. The real-time support of this feature is available only in PERC 9.1 firmware. Reset configuration does not erase any data. You may recreate the exact same configuration without an initialize operation which may result in the data being recovered. You must have server control privilege.

NOTE: Resetting the controller configuration does not remove a foreign configuration. To remove a foreign configuration, perform clear configuration operation.

Resetting Controller Configuration Using Web Interface

To reset the controller configuration:

1.In the iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Storage → Controllers → Troubleshooting. The Controllers Troubleshooting page is displayed.

2.From the Actions drop-down menu, select Reset Configuration for one or more controllers.

3.For each controller, from the Apply Operation Mode drop-down menu, select when you want to apply the settings.

4.Click Apply.

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