RAID & Disk Management Commands

These commands allow management of disks and RAID creation.

For Hardware RAID please enter the Slotindex (For example: 1, 2,3, and so on) instead of diskname (For

example: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb) in the option for -d / --diskname <DiskInfo_OSName or slotindex>

Command

Argument

Description

 

get raid

-t/--type {pd/ld/controller}

Displays the number of disks,

 

 

-c/--count

logical drives and controllers

 

 

 

respectively.

 

get raid

-t/--type {controller}

Displays the alarm mode and

 

 

-a/--alarm

battery status of controllers

 

 

-n <controllerno>

respectively.

 

list raid

-t/--type {pd/ld/controller}

Displays the list of logical drives

 

 

 

and controllers respectively.

 

list raid

-t/--type {pd/enclosure}

Displays the list of physical drives

 

 

-n <controllerno>

and enclosures for controller

 

 

 

respectively.

 

list raid

-t/--type {spare}

Displays the list of spare disks.

 

 

 

 

 

get raid

-t/--type {pd}

Displays the information about

 

 

-i/--info

specified disk.

 

 

-n/--controllerno <controller number>

 

 

 

-d / --diskname <Diskname or slotindex>

 

 

get raid

-t/--type {pd}

Gets the physical disk cache mode.

 

 

-d/--diskname <diskname or slotindex>

 

 

 

-n <ControllerNo>

 

 

 

-m/--cachemode

 

 

 

For example: get –t pd –d 1 –n 0 –m raid

 

 

get raid

-t/--type {ld}

Gets the logical drive cache setting.

 

 

-l/--ldname < Logical_Osname>

 

 

 

-m/ --cachemode

 

 

rebuild raid

-d/--diskname <diskname or slotindex>

Rebuilds a logical drive with the

 

 

-l/–ldname <ldname>

specified disk drive.

 

create raid

-t/--type {ld}

Creates a logical drive.

 

 

-s/ --disksize <disksize optional in GB>

-s/ --disksize – only supported for

 

 

-p/--stripesize <stripe size 64 KB>

3U

 

 

-d / --diskname <diskname or slotindex>

 

 

 

-a/--sparediskname <sparediskname> (optional)

For LSI RAID Controller - Cache

 

 

-e/--distspare <distributedspare> (optional)

Modes Format -

 

 

-r / --raidlevel <raid

writecache:readcache:cachemode

 

 

level(0/1/3/5/6/10/1N/10N/50/60) >

 

 

 

-m/--cachemode <cachemode>

writecache values - WriteThrough

 

 

-b/--subdisk <subdiskcount>

/ WriteBack / ForceWriteBack

 

 

-n/--controllerno <controllerno>

 

 

 

For example:

readcache values -

 

 

cli create -t ld -p 64 -d 1:5 -d 1:6 -r 0 -m

ReadAheadNone / ReadAhead /

 

 

WriteThrough:ReadAhead:Cached -n 0 raid

ReadAdaptive

 

 

 

cachemode values - Direct /

 

 

 

Cached

 

 

 

-p/ --stripesize – only 64 kb

 

 

 

supported for 3U

 

 

 

Minimum LD size: 10 GB

 

delete raid

-t/--type {ld}

Deletes specified logical drive.

 

 

-l / --ldname <drivename>

 

 

 

For example: delete –t ld –l /dev/md1 raid (1U)

 

 

 

For example: delete –t ld –l /dev/sdb raid (3U)

 

 

 

 

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