Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

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Enable or Disable VAAI

This command turns on or turns off VMware vStorage API Array Architecture (VAAI) for a storage array. The storage array comes with VAAI turned on. Use this command to turn off VAAI if you do not want to run VAAI, or if VAAI is causing issues with the storage array. The only storage array that is affected is the storage array on which the command is run.

Syntax

set storageArray vaaiEnabled=(TRUE | FALSE)

Parameter

Parameter	Description
`vaaiEnabled`	The setting to turn on or turn off VAAI. To turn on VAAI set this parameter to TRUE. To turn off VAAI set this parameter to FALSE. The default setting is that VAAI is turned on.

NOTE: VAAI enables some storage tasks to be offloaded from the server hardware to a storage array. Offloading the storage tasks to a storage array increases host performance by reducing the tasks the host must perform.