#!/usr/bin/env bash # Convert PERC H730 drives to Non-RAID (per-disk passthrough) mode. # Run once on the Proxmox host before assigning drives to VMs. # Requires: perccli (install from Dell's website or local .deb) # # Dell PERC H730 does not have a true HBA/IT mode. Non-RAID mode is the # equivalent — each disk is presented directly to the OS with SMART intact. set -euo pipefail PERCCLI=$(command -v perccli || command -v perccli64 || true) if [[ -z "$PERCCLI" ]]; then echo "perccli not found. Install it:" echo " curl -L --referer 'https://www.dell.com/' \\" echo " --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' \\" echo " 'https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER03559396M/1/perccli-1.17.10-1.noarch.rpm' \\" echo " -o /tmp/perccli.rpm" echo " apt install -y alien && alien --to-deb /tmp/perccli.rpm" echo " dpkg -i /tmp/perccli_*.deb" echo " ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli64 /usr/local/bin/perccli" exit 1 fi echo "=== Controller overview ===" $PERCCLI show echo "" echo "=== Drives on controller 0 ===" $PERCCLI /c0 /eall /sall show echo "" read -rp "Proceed with converting all non-OS drives to Non-RAID mode? [y/N] " confirm [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] || { echo "Aborted."; exit 0; } # Identify enclosure IDs (typically 8 for the internal backplane on R730xd) ENCLOSURES=$($PERCCLI /c0 /eall show | awk '/^[0-9]/{print $1}' | sort -u) for enc in $ENCLOSURES; do echo "" echo "=== Processing enclosure $enc ===" SLOTS=$($PERCCLI /c0 /e"$enc" /sall show | awk '/UGood|Onln|JBOD|DHS/{print $2}' | sort -u) for slot in $SLOTS; do echo -n " Slot $slot: setting to Good... " $PERCCLI /c0 /e"$enc" /s"$slot" set good force 2>&1 | grep -i "success\|error\|already" || true echo -n " Slot $slot: setting to Non-RAID... " $PERCCLI /c0 /e"$enc" /s"$slot" set nonraid 2>&1 | grep -i "success\|error\|already" || true done done echo "" echo "=== Final drive state ===" $PERCCLI /c0 /eall /sall show echo "" echo "Done. Reboot the host for changes to take full effect." echo "After reboot, run build-bay-map.sh to map bays to /dev/disk/by-id paths."