Dell PowerVault MD3620f User manual

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Storage Arrays

CLI Guide

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Contents

1 About the Command Line Interface. . . . . 15

How to Use the Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . 16

Usage Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Command Line Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Formatting Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Detailed Error Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Exit Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Usage Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2 About the Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . 31

Script Command Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Script Command Synopsis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Recurring Syntax Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Usage Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Adding Comments to a Script File . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

3 Configuring a Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . 45

Configuring a Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Determining What is on Your Storage Array . . . . 46

Saving a Configuration to a File. . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using the Create Virtual Disk Command . . . . . . 50

Using the Auto Configure Command . . . . . . . . 54

Modifying Your Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Setting the Storage Array Password . . . . . . . . 58

Setting Up SMTP and SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . 58

Setting the RAID Controller Module Clocks . . . . 59

Setting the Storage Array Host Type . . . . . . . . 59

Setting Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Assigning Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4 Using the Snapshot Feature . . . . . . . . . 63

Using Host Servers to Create an Initial

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

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Enabling the Snapshot Virtual Disk Feature . . . . 67

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk with

User-Assigned Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Preparing Host Servers to Create an

Initial Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Creating the Initial Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . 68

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

with Software-Assigned Physical Disks . . . . . . 70

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk by

Specifying a Number of Physical Disks. . . . . . . 71

User-Defined Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Names of Snapshot Virtual Disks and

Repository Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing Snapshot Virtual Disk Settings . . . . . . . . 75

Stopping and Deleting a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . 76

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Re-creating the Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . 77

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . 78

5 Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature . . . . 79

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Enabling the Virtual Disk Copy Feature. . . . . . . 81

Determining Virtual Disk Copy Candidates . . . . . 81

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Preparing Host Servers to Create a

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Viewing Virtual Disk Copy Properties. . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings . . . . . . . . . . 85

Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Preparing Host Servers to Recopy

a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Interaction With Other Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

6 Using the Remote Replication

Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

How Remote Replication Works . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Replication Repository Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 94

Replication Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Data Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Link Interruptions or Secondary

Virtual Disk Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Resynchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating a Remote Replicated Pair . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Enabling the Remote Replication

Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Activating the Remote Replication

Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Determining Candidates for a

Remote Replicated Pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Creating a Remote Replicated Pair . . . . . . . . 105

Changing Remote Replication Settings . . . . . . . . 107

Suspending and Resuming a

Replication Relationship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Removing a Replication Relationship . . . . . . . . . 110

Deleting a Primary Virtual Disk or a

Secondary Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Disabling the Remote Replication

Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Deactivating the Remote Replication

Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Interaction with Other Premium Features. . . . . . . 111

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Storage Partitioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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7 Maintaining a Storage Array. . . . . . . . . 115

Routine Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Running a Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Running a Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Resetting a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 118

Enabling RAID Controller

Module Data Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Resetting Battery Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Removing Persistent Reservations . . . . . . . . . 118

Synchronizing RAID

Controller Module Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Locating Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Monitoring Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Changing RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing Segment Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Defragmenting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Troubleshooting and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Collecting Physical Disk Data. . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Diagnosing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 123

Recovery Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Setting RAID Controller

Module Operational Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing RAID Controller

Module Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Initializing a Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Reconstructing a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 127

Initializing a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Redistributing Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

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8 Script Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Command Formatting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Firmware Compatibility Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Commands Listed by Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Disk Group Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Enclosure Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Host Topology Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

iSCSI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Physical Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

RAID Controller Module Commands . . . . . . . 135

Remote Replication Commands . . . . . . . . . 136

Session Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Show String Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Snapshot Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Storage Array Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Virtual Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Virtual Disk Copy Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Commands Listed Alphabetically . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Activate Remote Replication Feature. . . . . . . 140

Activate Storage Array Firmware. . . . . . . . . 144

Autoconfigure Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Autoconfigure Storage Array Hot Spares . . . . 147

Check Remote Replication Status . . . . . . . . 147

Check Virtual Disk Consistency. . . . . . . . . . 148

Clear Physical Disk Port Statistics . . . . . . . . 149

Clear Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . 150

Clear Storage Array Event Log . . . . . . . . . . 151

Clear Storage Array

Firmware Pending Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Clear Virtual Disk Reservations . . . . . . . . . . 152

Clear Virtual Disk Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . 153

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Create Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Create Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Create Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Create Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Create iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Create RAID Virtual Disk

(Automatic Physical Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . 162

Create RAID Virtual Disk

(Free Capacity Base Select) . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Create RAID Virtual Disk

(Manual Physical Disk Select) . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Create Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Create Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Create Storage Array Security Key. . . . . . . . . 181

Create Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Deactivate Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . 185

Delete Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Delete Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Delete Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Delete Host Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Delete iSCSI Initiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Delete Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Diagnose RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . 190

Diagnose Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Disable Storage Array Feature . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Download Enclosure

Management Module Firmware . . . . . . . . . . 194

Download Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . 195

Download Storage

Array Firmware/NVSRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Download Storage

Array Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Download Storage Array NVSRAM . . . . . . . . 199

Enable Disk Group Security . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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Enable RAID Controller

Module Data Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Enable Storage Array Feature . . . . . . . . . . 201

Recopy Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Re-create Remote Replication

Repository Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Re-create Snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Remove Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Remove Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Remove Virtual Disk LUN Mapping . . . . . . . . 211

Repair Virtual Disk Consistency . . . . . . . . . 212

Replace Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Reset RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . 214

Reset Storage Array Battery Install Date. . . . . 215

Reset Storage Array iSCSI Baseline . . . . . . . 216

Reset Storage Array SAS PHY Baseline . . . . . 216

Reset Storage Array

Virtual Disk Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Resume Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Revive Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Revive Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Save Enclosure Log Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Save Physical Disk Channel

Fault Isolation Diagnostic Status . . . . . . . . . 220

Save Physical Disk Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Save RAID Controller Module NVSRAM . . . . . 221

Save Storage Array Configuration . . . . . . . . 222

Save Storage Array Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Save Storage Array iSCSI Statistics . . . . . . . 224

Save Storage Array Performance Statistics . . . . . 225

Save Storage Array SAS PHY Counts . . . . . . 225

Save Storage Array State Capture . . . . . . . . 226

Save Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . 226

Set Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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