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

The set storageArray command enables you to define the default host type. The following syntax is the general form of the command:

set storageArray defaultHostType=(hostTypeName | hostTypeIdentifier)

The defaultHostType parameter defines how the RAID controller modules communicate with the operating system on undefined hosts connected to the storage array. This parameter defines the host type only for storage array data I/O activities; it does not define the host type for the management station. The operating system can be Windows or Linux. For example, if you set the defaultHostType to Linux, the RAID controller module communicates with any undefined host if the undefined host is running Linux. Typically, you need to change the host type only when you are setting up the storage array. The only time you might need to use this parameter is if you need to change how the storage array behaves relative to the hosts.

Before you can define the default host type, you need to determine what host types are connected to the storage array. To return information about host types connected to the storage array, you can use the show storageArray command with the defaultHostType parameter or hostTypeTable parameter. This command returns a list of the host types with which the RAID controller modules can communicate; it does not return a list of the hosts. The following examples show how to use the defaultHostType parameter and the hostTypeTable parameter:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray defaultHostType;"
                                    
                                    client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray hostTypeTable;"
                                 

The following example shows how to define a specific default host type:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray defaultHostType=11;"

The value 11 is the host type index value from the host type table.