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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide

Add drives to an existing pool

Retrieve the list of existing pools

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /store/config/pool show
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

1:     ID               = SPL_1
       Name             = Performance
       Description      =
       Free space       = 408944640 (390G)
       Capacity         = 1099511627776 (1T)
       Drives           = 6 x 250GB SAS
       Number of drives = 6
       Unused drives    = 1
       RAID level       = 5
       System pool      = yes 

2:     ID               = SPL_2
       Name             = Capacity
       Description      =
       Free space       = 1319413953331 (1.2T)
       Capacity         = 13194139533312 (12T)
       Drives           = 8 x 2GB NL-SAS
       Number of drives = 8
       Unused drives    = 0
       RAID level       = 6
       System pool      = yes

3:     ID               = SPL_3
       Name             = Extreme Performance
       Description      = 
       Free space       = 209715200 (200M)
       Capacity         = 322122547200 (300G)
       Drive type       = EFD
       Number of drives = 4
       Unused drives    = 0
       RAID level       = 5
       System pool      = yes

Retrieve the list of recommended disk groups for the selected pool

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /stor/config/dg recom –pool SPL_3
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

1:     ID                        = DG_4
       Drive type                = EFD
       Drive size                = 107374182400 (100G)
       Number of drives          = 4
       Allowed numbers of drives = 4
       Capacity                  = 419430400 (400G)

Extend the existing pool

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /stor/config/pool –id SPL_3 extend –diskGroup DG_4 –drivesNumber 4
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

ID = SPL_3
Operation completed successfully.

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