This article is intended only for common symcfg operations which are used for storage administration. For a full list of commands along with appropriate explanation, see the Dell Solutions Enabler CLI Reference Guide.
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| Command syntax | Explanation | Type |
|---|---|---|
symcfg discover |
Discover the VMAX/PowerMax arrays, also refreshes the symapi database. | General Operations |
symcfg discover -nocache |
Bypasses the cache and rescans the devices for configuration information | |
symcfg list |
List the VMAX/PowerMax arrays | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -v |
Detailed information about the VMAX/PowerMax array | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -lockn all |
External locks held in the array | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -memory |
Displays information about the memory boards | |
symcfg -sid 111 verify |
To check whether the array configuration and the array's configuration database file are synchronized or not. | |
symcfg -sid 444 remove |
Remove the array from the symcfg list. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -env_data |
Displays the status of the major hardware modules | Environmental |
symcfg -sid 111 list -env_data -v |
Verbose or summarized formats of the above. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -env_data -service_state failed |
To display the status of modules that are in a failed state | |
symcfg -sid 111 -dir 1d list |
List the status of director 1d along with the number of ports, cores, and engine | Directors and Ports |
symcfg -sid 111 -dir 4d -p 8 list -addr -avail |
List the LUN information or availability of lun ids on director 4d port 8. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -fa 4d -port |
List the ports along with its status associated with director 4d | |
symcfg -sid 111 -fa 4d -p 4 online |
Make the frontend port 4d:4 to online. | |
symcfg -sid 111 -fa 4d -p 4 offline |
Make the frontend port 4d:4 to offline. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -port -free |
List all the free ports not associated with any emulations | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -port -free -slot 4 |
List all the free ports in director slot 4 not associated with any emulation | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -fa all |
List the FA directors and its status along with the number of ports associated with each director | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -fa all -port |
Displays online and connection status of all frontend director ports | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -sa all |
Displays the status of all Front-end directors | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -da all |
Displays the status of all Back-end directors | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -dir all |
Displays the status of all directors | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -connections |
Display the host-to-array connectivity. Only those hosts that have at least one registered application is listed. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -RA ALL |
List all the RA ports along with the status of the port and the RDF groups where each RA port is a member of. | Remote Replication |
symcfg -sid 111 list -RA 3f |
List all the RDF groups along with port status where RA port 3f is a member of. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -rdfg 3 |
List details about rdf group 3. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -rdfg all |
List details about all the rdf groups in the array. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -rdfg 3 -rdfa |
Shows the specific SRDF/A information about the rdf group 3 | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -efficiency -detail |
Display Efficiency reports for the array. | Capacity, Efficiency, and SRP |
symcfg -sid 111 list -efficiency -detail -srp |
Display Efficiency reports for each SRP on the array | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -sg_compression -all |
List all Storage Groups along with the compression ratio | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -slo |
List all the available Service Level Objectives(SLO) | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -slo -detail -by_resptime -all |
List the SLOs and the workloads that can be associated with storage groups in the array, along with the approximate response time for each. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -srp |
List all the Storage Resource Pools(SRP) in the array | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -srp -detail |
List all the SRPs in the array along with usable, allocated, and free storage capacity. | |
symcfg -sid 111 list -srp -v |
Verbose output of the SRP | |
symcfg -sid 111 show -efficiency -srp SRP_1 |
Show the efficiency for srp_1 in the array |