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

The show storageArray command returns the following general information about the components and properties of the storage array:

• A detailed profile of the components and features in the storage array
• The battery age
• The default host type (which is the current host type)
• Other available host types
• The hot spare locations
• The identifiers for enabled features
• The logical and physical component profiles
• The time to which both RAID controller modules are set
• The RAID controller module that currently owns each virtual disk in the storage array

To return the most information about the storage array, run the show storageArray command with the profile parameter. The following is an example of the complete CLI and script command running on Windows:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray profile;"

This example identifies the storage array by the dummy IP address 123.45.67.89. You can also identify the storage array by name.

The show storageArray profile command returns detailed information about the storage array. The information is presented in several screens on a display. You might need to increase the size of your display buffer to see all of the information. Because this information is so detailed, you might want to save the output to a file. To save the output to a file, enter the command as shown in the following example:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray profile;"
                                    -o c:\
                                    folder\
                                    storageArrayprofile.txt
                                 

In this example, the name folder is the folder in which you choose to place the profile file, and storageArrayprofile.txt is the name of the file. You can choose any folder and any file name. When you save the information to a file, you can use the information as a record of your configuration and as an aid during recovery.

To return a brief list of the storage array features and components, use the summary parameter. The command is similar to the following example:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "show storageArray summary;"

The summary information is also returned as the first section of information when you use the profile parameter.

The following show commands return information about the specific components of a storage array. The information returned by each of these commands is the same as the information returned by the show storageArray profile command, but is constrained to the specific component.

• show controller (RAID Controller Module Commands)
• show physicalDisks (Show Physical Disk)
• show physicalDiskchannels stats (Show Physical Disk Channel Statistics)
• show storageArray hostTopology (Show Storage Array Host Topology)
• show storageArray lunmappings (Show Storage Array LUN Mappings)
• show allVirtualDisks (Show Virtual Disk)
• show diskGroup (Show Disk Group)
• show virtualDisk reservations (Show Virtual Disk Reservations)

The following commands also return information about a storage array:

• show storageArray autoConfigure (Show Storage Array Auto Configure)
• show controller NVSRAM (Show RAID Controller Module NVSRAM)
• show storageArray unreadableSectors (Show Storage Array Unreadable Sectors)
• show virtualDiskCopy sourceCandidates (Show Virtual Disk Copy Source Candidates)
• show virtualDiskCopy targetCandidates (Show Virtual Disk Copy Target Candidates)
• show virtualDisk performanceStat (Show Disk Group Import Dependencies)

For descriptions of the show commands, including examples of the information returned by each command, see Script Commands. Other commands can help you learn about your storage array. To see a list of the commands, see Commands Listed By Function. These commands are organized by the storage array activities that the commands support. Examples include virtual disk commands, host commands, enclosure commands, and others.