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Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Install and Upgrade Guide

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Retrieve volume information for Windows

You can retrieve volume information from the MDM.

About this task

The sg_inq.exe file was added to the MSI installation and can be found at C:\Program Files\EMC\ScaleIO\SDC\diag\.

Steps

  1. Run the sg_inq HardiskX SCSI query command.
    The result of this command includes the EMC volume ID at the bottom of the output.
  2. On the MDM, get the PowerFlex volume information:
    C:\Program Files\emc\scaleio\sdc\bin\drv_cfg --query_vol
    Output similar to the following is displayed:

    Retrieve volume information from the MDM

  3. From the Windows command prompt, run this command:
    wmic diskdrive get deviceid,serialnumber | findstr "EMC"
    Output similar to the following is displayed:

    \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE13 EMC-0b246c9a755ca3dd-6acb988500000004

    The first part of the output is the disk name. In our example: PHYSICALDRIVE13

    The second part is the disk serial number. The last set of the second part (after the dash) is the PowerFlex volume ID. In our example: 6acb988500000004


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