Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Version 5.4 Command Line Interface Reference Guide

RAID Replication Options

The following table lists the RAID replication options.

Table 1. RAID Replication OptionsThe following table describes the RAID replication options, valid parameters arguments and corresponding descriptions.
Mandatory Options and Arguments	Optional Parameters	Valid Parameters Arguments	Description
-i	NA	<filename>	Reads the RAID configuration information from the given .ini filename and creates the RAID configurations on the specified controllers. This option is mandatory. Example: A:> raidcfg -i=\tmp\raid.ini
-o	NA	<filename>	Reads the RAID configurations from all available controllers and writes these configurations in the raid.ini file under the /tmp directory (in Linux systems). This option is mandatory. Example: A:> raidcfg -o=\tmp\raid.ini The contents of the raid.ini file are: [vdisk0] controllerid=0 size=123456 raid=5 readpolicy=ra writepolicy=wt stripesize=32 cachepolicy=d adisk=0:0:1,0:1:1,0:2:1 [vdisk1] controllerid=0 size=65345 raid=1 readpolicy=ra writepolicy=wt stripesize=64 cachepolicy=d adisk=0:3:1,0:4:1 NOTE If the controller uses global hot spares, the raid.ini file contains the following section: [GlobalHotspare0] controllerid=0 failoverdrive=0:8:0