Dell PowerVault MD3220 Series User manual

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Storage Arrays

CLI Guide

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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

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

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

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Enabling the Snapshot Virtual Disk Feature . . . . 65

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk with

User-Assigned Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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 . . . . . . . . . 68

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

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

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

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Preparing Host Servers to

Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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

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

Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Interaction With Other Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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

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

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

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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

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

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

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

Troubleshooting and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Collecting Physical Disk Data. . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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

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

Setting RAID Controller Module

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

Changing RAID Controller

Module Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Initializing a Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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

Initializing a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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

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

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

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Firmware Compatability Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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

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

Enclosure Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

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

iSCSI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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

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

Session Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Show String Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Snapshot Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Storage Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Virtual Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Virtual Disk Copy Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Commands Listed Alphabetically . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Activate Storage Array Firmware . . . . . . . . . 115

Autoconfigure Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Autoconfigure Storage Array Hot Spares . . . . . 118

Check Virtual Disk Consistency . . . . . . . . . . 118

Clear Physical Disk Port Statistics . . . . . . . . . 120

Clear Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . . 120

Clear Storage Array Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Clear Storage Array Firmware Pending Area . . . 121

Clear Virtual Disk Reservations. . . . . . . . . . . 122

Clear Virtual Disk Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . 122

Create Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Create Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Create Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Create Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Create iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Create RAID Virtual Disk (Automatic

Physical Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

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Create RAID Virtual Disk (Free

Capacity Base Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Create RAID Virtual Disk (Manual

Physical Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Create Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Create Storage Array Security Key . . . . . . . . 147

Create Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Delete Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Delete Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Delete Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Delete Host Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Delete iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Delete Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Diagnose RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 155

Disable Storage Array Feature . . . . . . . . . . 157

Download Enclosure Management

Module Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Download Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . 160

Download Storage Array

Firmware/NVSRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Download Storage Array

Physical Disk Frimware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Download Storage Array NVSRAM. . . . . . . . 163

Enable Disk Group Security. . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Enable RAID Controller

Module Data Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Enable Storage Array Feature . . . . . . . . . . 165

Recopy Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Recover RAID Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Re-create Snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Remove Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Remove Virtual Disk LUN Mapping . . . . . . . . 173

Repair Virtual Disk Consistency . . . . . . . . . 174

Replace Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Reset RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . 176

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Reset Storage Array Battery Install Date . . . . . 177

Reset Storage Array iSCSI Baseline . . . . . . . . 178

Reset Storage Array SAS PHY Baseline . . . . . . 179

Reset Storage Array Virtual Disk Distribution . . . 179

Revive Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Revive Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Save Enclosure Log Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Save Physical Disk Channel Fault

Isolation Diagnostic Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Save Physical Disk Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Save RAID Controller Module NVSRAM . . . . . . 182

Save Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . . 182

Save Storage Array Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Save Storage Array iSCSI Statistics . . . . . . . . 184

Save Storage Array Performance Statistics . . . . 185

Save Storage Array SAS PHY Counts . . . . . . . 186

Save Storage Array State Capture . . . . . . . . . 186

Save Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . 186

Set Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Set Disk Group Forced State . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Set Enclosure Attribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Set Enclosure Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Set Foreign Physical Disk to Native . . . . . . . . 190

Set Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Set Host Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Set Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Set Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Set iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Set iSCSI Target Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Set Physical Disk Channel Status . . . . . . . . . 198

Set Physical Disk Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Set Physical Disk State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Set RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

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Set Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Set Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Set Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Set Storage Array Enclosure Positions. . . . . . 211

Set Storage Array ICMP Response . . . . . . . . 212

Set Storage Array iSNS

Server IPv4 Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Set Storage Array iSNS

Server IPv6 Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Set Storage Array iSNS

Server Listening Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Set Storage Array Learn Cycle . . . . . . . . . . 214

Set Storage Array Redundancy Mode . . . . . . 215

Set Storage Array Security Key . . . . . . . . . 216

Set Storage Array Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Set Storage Array Unnamed

Discovery Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Set Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Set Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Show Current iSCSI Sessions . . . . . . . . . . 224

Show Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Show Disk Group Export Dependencies . . . . . 225

Show Disk Group Import Dependencies . . . . . 226

Show Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Show Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Show Physical Disk Channel Statistics . . . . . . 230

Show Physical Disk Download Progress . . . . . 230

Show RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . 231

Show RAID Controller Module NVSRAM. . . . . 232

Show Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Show Storage Array Auto Configure . . . . . . . 235

Show Storage Array Host Topology . . . . . . . 237

Show Storage Array LUN Mappings . . . . . . . 238

Show Storage Array Negotiation Defaults . . . . 238

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