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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 5: MegaRAID Command Tool | CacheCade Related Options
5.5.1 Create a Solid State Drive
Cache Drive to Use as Secondary Cache
Use the command in the following table to create a cache drive using CacheCade 2.0
SSD Read Caching software. You can use that cache as secondary cache. CacheCade 2.0
SSD Read Caching software has much greater capacity than HDDs.
5.5.2 Delete a Solid State Drive
Cache Drive
Use the command in the following table to delete a CacheCade 2.0 SSD Read Caching
software cache drive or multiple cache drives on the selected controllers.
5.5.3 Associate/Disassociate Virtual
Drives
Use this command in the following table to associate or disassociate virtual drives with
a CacheCade Pro 2.0 virtual drive.
5.5.4 Display CacheCade Pro 2.0
Configurations on a Controller
Use this command in the following table to display all the existing CacheCade Pro 2.0
configurations on a selected controller.
Table 26: Create a Solid State Cache Drive to Use as Secondary Cache
Convention MegaCli -CfgCachecadeAdd -Physdrv[E0:S0,...] {-Name
LdNamestring} -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL
Description This command is used to create CacheCade software that you can use as
secondary cache.
-Physdrv[E0:S0,...] : Specifies the physical drive enclosure and the
slots to use to construct a drive group.
-Name LdNamestring : This is the name given to the CacheCade
software cache drive.
Table 27: Delete Solid State Cache Drives
Convention MegaCli -CfgCachecadeDel -LX|-L0,2,5...|-LALL
-aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL
Description Deletes the specified CacheCade software cache drive or drives on the
selected controllers. You can delete multiple CacheCade software cache
drives or all of the CacheCade software caches.
Table 28: Associate/Disassociate Virtual Drives
Convention MegaCLI -Cachecade -assign|-remove
-Lx|-L0,1,2|-LALL -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL
Description Assigns or removes association of virtual drives with the CacheCade pool.
-assign: associates virtual drives with a CacheCade Pro 2.0 virtual drive.
-remove: disassociates virtual drives with a CacheCade Pro 2.0 virtual drive.
Table 29: Display CacheCade Pro 2.0 Configurations on a Controller
Convention MegaCLI -CfgCacheCadeDsply -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL
Description Displays all the existing CacheCade Pro 2.0 configurations on a selected
controller.