No option
-h
-?
or
/?
|
NA |
Displays general usage information for the utility. The usage
information consists of a comprehensive list of valid options, parameters,
and arguments.
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Optional.
See
General Help for specific usage information.
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-ac or action
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blink |
Blinks the specified physical disks on the specified controller. |
See
Blinking And Unblinking Array Disks for specific usage information.
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cvd
or
createvdisk
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Creates a virtual disk.
-
NOTE: When providing multiple
physical disks for the createvdisk command, do not separate the disks
with spaces. For example, -
ad= 1:4, 1:5 causes an
error. The correct syntax for displaying multiple physical disks is
-ad= 1:4,1:5,1:6
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See
Creating Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
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ci
or
cancelinit
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Cancels the slow or full initialization on the selected virtual
disk.
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See
Initializing Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
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dvd
or
deletevdisk
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Deletes a virtual disk. |
See
Deleting Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
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dphs
or
disablepersistenthotspare
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Disables the controller Persistent Hot Spare feature for the
selected controller.
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See
Enabling and Disabling Persistent Dedicated Hot Spares for
specific usage information.
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ephs
or
enablepersistenthotspare
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Enables the controller Persistent Hot Spare feature for the
selected controller.
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See
Enabling and Disabling Persistent Dedicated Hot Spares for
specific usage information.
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fgnclr
or
foreignclear
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Clears the foreign configuration for the indicated controller. |
See
Importing and Clearing Foreign Configurations for specific
usage information.
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fgnrvr
or
foreignrecover
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Recovers the Foreign configuration for the indicated controller. |
See
Importing and Clearing Foreign Configurations for specific
usage information.
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fi
or
fastinit
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Initializes the virtual disk for the specified controller. |
See
Initializing Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
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gpciels
or
getPCIeLinkSpeed
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Displays the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)
link speed of the controller.
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See
Setting and Displaying the PCIe Link Speed for specific usage
information.
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lghs
or
listglobalhotspare
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Displays the array (physical) disks used for global hot spare
for the specified controller.
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See
Assigning, Unassigning, And Listing Global Hot Spares for
specific usage information.
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rghs
or
removeglobalhotspare
|
Unassigns all global hot spares to disks on the specified controller. |
See
Assigning, Unassigning, And Listing Global Hot Spares for
specific usage information.
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rst
or
reset
|
Resets the selected controller. |
See
Resetting The Controller for specific usage information.
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sbf
or
setbootflag
|
Sets the indicated virtual disk as boot VD on the indicated
controller.
|
See
Setting A Virtual Disk As Bootable Virtual Disk for specific
usage information.
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sghs
or
setglobalhotspare
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Assigns the specified disks as global hot spares on the specified
controller.
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Optional. See
Assigning, Unassigning,
And Listing Global Hot Spares
for specific usage information.
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sli
or
slowinit
|
Initializes the virtual disk for the specified controller using
the
slowinit command.
|
See
Initializing Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
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spciels
or
setPCIeLinkSpeed
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Sets the PCIe link speed of the controller to 2 or 3. |
See
Setting And Displaying The PCIe Link Speed for specific usage
information.
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svdn
or
setvdname
|
Sets the name of the specified virtual disk on the specified
controller.
|
See
Assigning, Unassigning, And Listing Global Hot Spares for
specific usage information.
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-ad or adisk
|
NA |
Specifies an array disk command. |
See
Enumerating Array Disks for specific usage information.
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|
ch:targ, ch:targ, ...
or
ch:targ:lun,...
or
ch:targ:enc
channel:target, or
channel:target:lun,
or
channel:target:enclosure
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Specifies an array disk.
For SCSI controllers, the
value of LUN should always be 0.
For SAS controllers, the value
of enclosure can be non-zero, in which case you must specify values
for channel, target, and enclosure.
-
NOTE: You can also use
pdisk or
-pd instead of
adisk or
-ad to specify an array disk.
|
Optional.
See
Enumerating Array
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-c or controllerid
|
<
valid controller ID number>
|
Specifies a RAID controller. |
See
Enumerating RAID Controllers for specific usage information.
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-cp or cachepolicy
|
d, c or d, e
|
Specifies the cache policy for reads on a specified virtual
disk or disk cache policy.
|
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-ctrl or controller
|
NA |
Displays a list of the supported RAID controllers in the system,
along with select property information.
|
Mandatory, must be typed in the correct order.
See
Enumerating RAID
Controllers
for specific usage information.
|
-envc or envcommand
|
<
string>
|
Sets a user-defined environmental variable (<
string>) to the value returned from a function call.
|
See
Setting Environment Variables for specific usage information.
|
-envn or envname
|
<
string>
|
Sets the environment variable (<
string>) that equates
to the value returned from a function call.
|
See
Setting Environment Variables for specific usage information.
|
-fd or failoverdrive
|
ch:targ,
ch:targ, ...
or
ch:targ:lun,...
or
ch:targ:enc
channel:target, or
channel:target:lun,
or
channel:target:enclosure
|
Specifies the location of the failover drive in an array.
For SCSI controllers, the value of LUN should always be 0.
For SAS controllers, the value of enclosure can be non-zero, in
which case you must specify values for
channel,
target, and
enclosure.
|
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-i
|
<
filename>
|
Reads the RAID configuration information from the given
.ini filename and creates the RAID configurations on the specified
controllers.
|
Mandatory.
See
Miscellaneous Options for specific usage information.
|
-l or
logfile
|
<
filename>
|
Logs command line output to a file. |
Optional.
See
Miscellaneous Optionsfor specific usage information.
|
-o
|
<
filename>
|
Reads the RAID configurations from all available controllers
and write these configurations in the given
.ini filename.
|
Mandatory.
See
RAID Replication
Options
for specific usage information.
|
-r or raid
|
<
valid RAID level number>
|
Sets the RAID level for the array.
Valid RAID values
are
0, 1, 5, 10, 50.
If no value is specified
for RAID,
0is taken as the default level.
|
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-rp or readpolicy
|
ra, ara, nra, rc, nrc
|
Sets the read policy for the virtual disk. |
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-se or setenvironment
|
NA |
Sets a user-defined environment variable to the value returned
from the function call. The function calls are:
getcontrollerslots,
getfirmware, getcontrollertype, getadisks, getadiskcount, getfreeadisks,
getfreeadiskcount, getfreeadisksize, and gethotspares.
|
Mandatory.
See
Setting Environment
Variables
for specific usage information.
|
-si or silent
|
NA |
Does not display any information on the terminal console. |
Optional.
See
Miscellaneous Options for specific usage information.
|
-sp or spanlength
|
<
number>
|
The span size of RAID 5, which is a mandatory parameter
for RAID 50.
-
NOTE: Spanlength is applicable for RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60. The minimum
permissible spanlength value is
2for RAID 10,
3for RAID 50 and
4for RAID 60. The number
of array disks for creating virtual disks should not be a prime number
and should be divisible by the specified spanlength.
|
Mandatory.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-sz or size
|
<
number>
|
Sets the maximum size on the virtual disk in MB or GB if
the size is not provided.
The default size is in MB. If GB follows
the number, the size is expressed in GB.
|
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
|
-ssz or stripesize
|
<
number>
|
Sets the stripe size on the virtual disk in KB.
-
NOTE: When creating virtual
disks, do not specify the units for chunk (stripe) size. The units
are always listed in KB.
|
Optional.
See
Creating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-vd or vdisk
|
NA |
Displays the virtual disks under all of the controllers along
with the physical array disks that make up the virtual disks.
|
See
Enumerating Virtual Disks for specific usage information.
|
|
<
valid virtual disk ID number>
|
Displays the specified virtual disk. |
Optional.
See
Enumerating Virtual
Disks
for specific usage information.
|
-ver or version
|
NA |
Displays the version number of the utility. |
Optional.
See
Miscellaneous Options for specific usage information.
|
-wp or writepolicy
|
wb, wt, wc, nwc, fwb
|
Sets the write policy for a virtual disk. The valid arguments
are:
wb (writeback caching),
wt (write-through caching),
wc (write-caching),
nwc (no-write-caching), and
fwb (force-write-back).
|
Optional.
See
Miscellaneous Options for specific usage information.
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