Dell PowerVault MD3000i User manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk

Storage Manager CLI Guide

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February 2008

Contents 3

Contents

1 About the Command Line Interface . . . . 13

How to Use the Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . 14

Usage Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Command Line Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Formatting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Detailed Error Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Exit Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Usage Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

2 About the Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . 29

Script Command Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Script Command Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Recurring Syntax Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Usage Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adding Comments to a Script File . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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3 Configuring a Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . 43

Configuring a Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Determining What is on Your Storage Array . . . . 44

Saving a Configuration to a File . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the Create Virtual Disk Command . . . . . . 48

Using the Auto Configure Command . . . . . . . . 53

Modifying Your Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Setting the Storage Array Password . . . . . . . . 56

Setting Up SMTP and SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . 56

Setting the RAID Controller Module Clocks . . . . 57

Setting the Storage Array Host Type . . . . . . . . 57

Setting Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Assigning Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

4 Using the Snapshot Feature . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using Host Servers to Create an Initial Snapshot

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Enabling the Snapshot Virtual Disk Feature . . . . 64

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk with

User-Assigned Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Preparing Host Servers to Create an Initial

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creating the Initial Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . 66

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk with

Software-Assigned Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk by

Specifying a Number of Physical Disks . . . . . . 69

User-Defined Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Names of Snapshot Virtual Disks and

Repository Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Changing Snapshot Virtual Disk Settings . . . . . . . 73

Stopping and Deleting a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . 74

Re-creating the Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . 75

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . 76

5 Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . 77

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Enabling the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . . . 79

Determining Virtual Disk Copy Candidates . . . . 79

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual

Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Viewing Virtual Disk Copy Properties . . . . . . . . . 82

Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings . . . . . . . . . . 83

Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Interaction with Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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6 Maintaining a Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . 91

Routine Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Running a Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Running a Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Resetting a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 94

Enabling RAID Controller Module Data

Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Resetting Battery Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing Persistent Reservations . . . . . . . . . 94

Synchronizing RAID Controller Module

Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Locating Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Monitoring Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Changing RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Changing Segment Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Defragmenting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Troubleshooting and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Collecting Physical Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Diagnosing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 99

Recovery Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Setting RAID Controller Module

Operational Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing RAID Controller Module

Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Initializing a Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Reconstructing a Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . 102

Initializing a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Redistributing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Contents 7

7 Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Command Formatting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Commands Listed by Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Disk Group Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Enclosure Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Host Topology Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

iSCSI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Physical Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

RAID Controller Module Commands . . . . . . . . 111

Session Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Show String Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Snapshot Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Storage Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Virtual Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Virtual Disk Copy Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Commands Listed Alphabetically . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Accept Storage Array Pending Topology . . . . . 114

Activate Storage Array Firmware . . . . . . . . . 114

Autoconfigure Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Autoconfigure Storage Array Hot Spares . . . . . 116

Check Disk Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Clear Physical Disk Channel Statistics . . . . . . . 118

Clear Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . . 118

Clear Storage Array Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Clear Storage Array Firmware Pending Area . . . 119

Clear Virtual Disk Reservations . . . . . . . . . . 119

Create Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Create Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Create Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Create iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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Create RAID Virtual Disk (Automatic Physical

Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Create RAID Virtual Disk (Free Capacity

Base Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Create RAID Virtual Disk (Manual Physical

Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Create Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Create Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Delete Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Delete Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Delete Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Delete Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Delete iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Delete Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Diagnose RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . 141

Disable Storage Array Feature . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Download Enclosure Management

Module Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Download Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . 145

Download Storage Array

Firmware/NVSRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Download Storage Array NVSRAM . . . . . . . . 147

Download Storage Array Physical Disk

Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Enable RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . 149

Enable Storage Array Feature Key . . . . . . . . . 149

Recopy Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Recover RAID Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Re-create Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Remove Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Remove Virtual Disk LUN Mapping . . . . . . . . . 156

Repair Virtual Disk Consistency . . . . . . . . . . 157

Reset RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Reset Storage Array Battery Install Date . . . . . 158

Reset Storage Array iSCSI Baseline . . . . . . . . 158

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Reset Storage Array SAS PHY Baseline . . . . . . 159

Reset Storage Array Virtual Disk Distribution . . . 159

Revive Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Revive Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Save Enclosure Log Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Save Physical Disk Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Save RAID Controller Module NVSRAM . . . . . . 162

Save Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . . 162

Save Storage Array Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Save Storage Array iSCSI Statistics . . . . . . . . 164

Save Storage Array Performance Statistics . . . . 165

Save Storage Array SAS PHY Counts . . . . . . . 165

Save Storage Array State Capture . . . . . . . . . 166

Save Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . 166

Set Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Set Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Set Enclosure Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Set Enclosure Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Set Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Set Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Set Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Set iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Set iSCSI Target Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Set Physical Disk Channel Status . . . . . . . . . 177

Set Physical Disk Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Set Physical Disk State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Set Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Set Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Set Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Set Storage Array Enclosure Positions . . . . . . 184

Set Storage Array ICMP Response . . . . . . . . 184

Set Storage Array iSNS Server IPv4 Address . . . 185

Set Storage Array iSNS Server IPv6 Address . . . 186

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Set Storage Array iSNS Server Listening

Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Set Storage Array iSNS Server Refresh . . . . . . 188

Set Storage Array Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Set Unnamed Discovery Session . . . . . . . . . 188

Set Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Set Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Show Current iSCSI Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Show Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Show Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Show Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Show Physical Disk Channel Statistics . . . . . . 198

Show Physical Disk Download Progress . . . . . . 199

Show RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Show RAID Controller Module NVSRAM . . . . . 201

Show Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Show Storage Array Autoconfigure . . . . . . . . 204

Show Storage Array Host Topology . . . . . . . . 206

Show Storage Array LUN Mappings . . . . . . . . 206

Show Storage Array Negotiation Defaults . . . . . 206

Show Storage Array Pending Topology . . . . . . 207

Show Storage Array Unreadable Sectors . . . . . 207

Show String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Show Unconfigured iSCSI Initiators . . . . . . . . 208

Show Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Show Virtual Disk Action Progress . . . . . . . . . 210

Show Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Show Virtual Disk Copy Source Candidates . . . . 212

Show Virtual Disk Copy Target Candidates . . . . 212

Show Virtual Disk Performance Statistics . . . . . 212

Show Virtual Disk Reservations . . . . . . . . . . 213

Start Disk Group Blink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Start Disk Group Defragment . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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