How to find the Tier info for a device ...

Sorry i should have provided this info ,

Hypers are of different size 1 GB, 5GB , 31.82 GB

RAID protection is ,
RAID 1, which we wil use to form striped meta which would utimately be RAID10
RAID 5

All Mirrors are created on 146GB drives ...

are all hypers the same size, protection ?

i don't know of an easy way to do that, might be a nice scripting project for you. If your 2-Way mirrors are always going to be on 146G drive then you can gather those with:

symdev list -sid 123 -raid1

this will list all 2-way mirror devices in the box, you will need to filter out meta members though.

For the other drives it will be trickier as you first need to run symdev show -sid 123 0BAD, then look for "DA :IT" and then run "symdisk show -sid 123 15A:C0" and look for "Total Disk Capacity (MB)" line. Sorry it's kind of cloogy..don't know another way of doing it through symcli. I am sure it can be done in ECC/Storage Scope more elegantly.

or you can create reference tables by using symdisk list commands and dump hyper info per disk group into specific files which represent different tiers and then take your device and search through those files.

symdev list -sid 1234 -disk_group 00/01/02/ .... Can you tell me what would the output of this command list ... any idea?

What is disk_group in this ?

i don't think you can specify multiple disk groups like that. If you run " symdisk list -sid 123 -by_diskgroup", you will see each physical disk listed and the heading will show what disk group it belongs too. As you can see disk groups can be used to create logical disk separation, first you separate different disk types but you can also separate by application use. For example when we purchased disks for Exchange implementation we wanted to make sure there were in specific group so we could only use them for Exchange hypers.

try this command:

symdisk -sid 123 list -hypers -v -disk_group 0

In symdisk list , or symdisk list -by_diskgroup how can i find out the device id.. i cant see any device id..

Ident Symb Int TID Vendor Type Hypers Total Free Actual
------ ---- --- --- ---------- ---------- ------ -------- -------- --------

Disk Group 0:

DF-1A 01A C 0 SEAGATE T300R10 69 286102 13984 286102
DF-1A 01A C 2 SEAGATE T300R10 69 286102 13984 286102
DF-1A 01A C 4 SEAGATE T300R10 69 286102 13707 286102
DF-1A 01A C 6 SEAGATE T300R10 69 286102 18363 286102
DF-1A 01A C 8 SEAGATE T300R10 69 286102 14442 286102

Here is output of , symdev -sid 1234 list -noport

0510 Not Visible ???:? 01A:C6 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 32588
0511 Not Visible ???:? 02A:C7 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 32588
0512 Not Visible ???:? 01A:D5 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 32588
0513 Not Visible ???:? 02A:D4 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 32588


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>symdisk show 01A:D5 | findstr "Product"
Product ID : SX3300955FCV
Product Revision : T300R10

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>symdisk show 02A:C7 | findstr "Product"
Product ID : SX3300955FCV
Product Revision : T300R10

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>symdisk show 01A:C6 | findstr "Product"
Product ID : SX3300955FCV
Product Revision : T300R10

from above output , how do i know that this particular hyper is created on which drive ( is it Tier 1 146GB disk, T2 300Gb , T5 500 GB disk ).

you can run symdev show on each device and look for this section:

this is 300G drive

Device : 0648
    {
    --------------------------------------------------------------
     Disk     DA       Hyper       Member    Spare       Disk
    DA :IT   Vol#   Num Cap(MB)  Num Status  Status  Grp#  Cap(MB)
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    02A:D2    598    21    5755    2 RW      N/A        2   286102
    15B:D2    597    21    5755    3 RW      N/A        2   286102
    02C:D2    600    21    5755    4 RW      N/A        2   286102
    15D:D2    647    21    5755    1 RW      N/A        2   286102
    }
}

this is 500G LCFC drive

Device : 0862
    {
    --------------------------------------------------------------
     Disk     DA       Hyper       Member    Spare       Disk
    DA :IT   Vol#   Num Cap(MB)  Num Status  Status  Grp#  Cap(MB)
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    16A:C13   383    18   19635    4 RW      N/A        3   476837
    16B:C14   396    18   19635    1 RW      N/A        3   476837
    16C:C13   373    18   19635    2 RW      N/A        3   476837
    16D:C14   393    18   19635    3 RW      N/A        3   476837
    }
}

Referring to above o/p, from the value under MB column , do you come to know that it is 300 and 500 GB disk correct ?

This is 300 GB
Cap(MB)
-------
286102
286102
286102
286102


this is 500 GB
Cap(MB)
-------
476837
476837
476837
476837

yep