No option -h -? or /? |
NA |
Displays general usage information for the utility.
The usage information consists of a comprehensive list of valid options,
parameters, and arguments. |
Optional. See General
Help for specific usage information. |
-ac or action |
blink |
Blinks the specified physical disks on the specified
controller. |
See Blinking And Unblinking
Array Disks for specific usage information. |
|
ci or cancelinit |
Cancels the slow or full initialization on the
selected virtual disk. |
See Initializing Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
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cc or consistencycheck |
Checks the consistency for a specified virtual
disk. |
See Consistency Check
For Virtual Disk for specific information. |
|
ccc or cancelconsistencycheck |
Cancels the consistency check for a specified
virtual disk. |
See Consistency Check
For Virtual Disk for specific information. |
|
chsk or changesecuritykey |
Changes the encryption key of the encryption-capable
controller. |
See Changing Encryption
Key for specific information. |
|
crbd or cancelrebuild |
Cancels the rebuild of the physical disk associated
with a specified virtual disk. |
See Configuring Physical
Disk Rebuild for specific information. |
|
ctr or converttoraid |
Configures the array disk as RAID. |
See Configuring Array
Disk as RAID for specific information. |
|
csk or createsecuritykey |
Creates encryption key for the encryption-capable
controller. |
See Creating Encryption
Key for specific information. |
|
ctnr or converttononraid |
Configures the array disk as JBOD. |
See Configuring Array
Disk as RAID for specific information. |
|
cvd or createvdisk |
Creates a virtual disk. NOTE: When providing multiple
physical disks for the createvdisk command, do not separate the disks
with spaces. For example, -ad= 1:4, 1:5 causes an
error. The correct syntax for displaying multiple physical disks is -ad= 1:4,1:5,1:6 |
See Creating Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
dvd or deletevdisk |
Deletes a virtual disk. |
See Deleting Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
dpc ordiscardPreservedCache |
Discards the preserved cache on the controller. |
See Discarding Preserved
Cache for specific usage information. |
|
dphs ordisablepersistenthotspare |
Disables the controller Persistent Hot Spare feature
for the selected controller. |
See Enabling and Disabling
Persistent Dedicated Hot Spares for specific usage information. |
|
dsk ordeletesecuritykey |
Deletes the encryption key of the encryption-capable
controller. |
See Deleting Encryption
Key for specific usage information. |
|
eai orenableautoimport |
Configures the auto import property of the controller. |
See Configuring Auto
Import for specific usage information. |
|
ephs or enablepersistenthotspare |
Enables the controller Persistent Hot Spare feature
for the selected controller. |
See Enabling and Disabling
Persistent Dedicated Hot Spares for specific usage information. |
|
evs or expandvdsize |
Increases the size of the virtual disk by the
specified percentage. |
See Increasing Virtual
Disk Size for specific usage information. |
|
fgnimp or foreignimport |
Imports the foreign configuration for the indicated
controller. |
See Importing and Clearing
Foreign Configurations for specific usage information. |
|
fgnclr or foreignclear |
Clears the foreign configuration for the specified
controller. |
See Importing and Clearing
Foreign Configurations for specific usage information. |
|
fgnrvr or foreignrecover |
Recovers the foreign configuration for the specified
controller. |
See Importing and Clearing
Foreign Configurations for specific usage information. |
|
fi or fastinit |
Initializes the virtual disk for the specified
controller. |
See Initializing Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
gfki or getforeignkeyids |
Displays the foreign key ids present on the specified
controller. |
See Displaying Foreign
Key Ids for specific usage information. |
|
gpciels or getPCIeLinkSpeed |
Displays the Peripheral Component Interconnect
Express (PCIe) link speed of the controller. |
See Setting and Displaying
the PCIe Link Speed for specific usage information. |
|
insecerase or instantsecureerase |
Erases the encrypted physical disk that is in ready
or foreign disk state. |
See Erasing Encrypted
Physical Disk for specific usage information. |
|
isfc or importsecureforeignconfig |
Imports the foreign configuration of the virtual
disks secured with the specified passphrase. |
See Importing Secured
Foreign Configurations for specific usage information. |
|
lghs or listglobalhotspare |
Displays the array (physical) disks used for global
hot spare for the specified controller. |
See Assigning, Unassigning,
And Listing Global Hot Spares for specific usage information. |
|
offline |
Sets the physical disk state to offline. |
See Configuring Physical
Disk State for specific usage information. |
|
online |
Sets the physical disk state to online. |
See Configuring Physical
Disk State for specific usage information. |
|
rghs or removeglobalhotspare |
Unassigns all global hot spares to disks on the
specified controller. |
See Assigning, Unassigning,
And Listing Global Hot Spares for specific usage information. |
|
replacepd or replacepdisk |
Replaces the physical disk of a virtual disk by
a ready state disk. |
See Replacing Physical
Disk Of A Virtual Disk for specific usage information. |
|
rbd or rebuild |
Rebuilds the physical disk associated with a specified
virtual disk. |
See Configuring Physical
Disk Rebuild for specific information. |
|
rst or reset |
Resets the selected controller. |
See Resetting The Controller for specific usage information. |
|
sbf or setbootflag |
Sets the indicated virtual disk as boot VD on
the indicated controller. |
See Setting A Virtual
Disk As Bootable Virtual Disk for specific usage information. |
|
sbm or setbootmode |
Sets the bootmode of the controller to 0 (BIOS
stop on error), 1 (BIOS continue on error), or 2 (Headless continue
on error) during system startup or reboot. |
See Setting Boot Mode for specific usage information. |
|
sghs or setglobalhotspare |
Assigns the specified disks as global hot spares
on the specified controller. |
Optional. See Assigning, Unassigning,
And Listing Global Hot Spares for specific usage information. |
|
sli or slowinit |
Initializes the virtual disk for the specified
controller using the slowinit command. |
See Initializing Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
spciels or setPCIeLinkSpeed |
Sets the PCIe link speed of the controller to 2
or 3. |
See Setting And Displaying
The PCIe Link Speed for specific usage information. |
|
svdn or setvdname |
Sets the name of the specified virtual disk on
the specified controller. |
See Setting Virtual Disk
Name for specific usage information. |
-ad or adisk |
NA |
Specifies an array disk command. |
See Enumerating Array
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
ch:targ, ch:targ, ... or ch:targ:lun,... or ch:targ:enc channel:target, or channel:target:lun, or channel:target:enclosure |
Specifies an array disk. For SCSI controllers, the value of LUN should always
be 0. For SAS controllers, the value of enclosure
can be non-zero, in which case you must specify values for channel,
target, and enclosure. NOTE: You can also use pdisk or -pd instead of adisk or -ad to specify an array disk. |
Optional. See Enumerating
Array Disks for specific usage information. |
-c or controllerid |
<valid controller ID number> |
Specifies a RAID controller. |
See Enumerating RAID
Controllers for specific usage information. |
-cp or cachepolicy |
d or e |
Specifies the cache policy for reads on a specified
virtual disk or disk cache policy. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-ctrl or controller |
NA |
Displays a list of the supported RAID controllers
in the system, along with select property information. |
Mandatory, must be typed in the
correct order. See Enumerating RAID
Controllers for specific usage information. |
-envc or envcommand |
<string> |
Sets a user-defined environmental variable (<string>) to the value returned from a function call. |
See Setting Environment
Variables for specific usage information. |
-envn or envname |
<string> |
Sets the environment variable (<string>) that equates to the value returned from a function call. |
See Setting Environment
Variables for specific usage information. |
-fd or failoverdrive |
ch:targ, ch:targ, ... or ch:targ:lun,... or ch:targ:enc channel:target, or channel:target:lun, or channel:target:enclosure |
Specifies the location of the failover
drive in an array. For SCSI controllers, the value
of LUN should always be 0. For SAS controllers,
the value of enclosure can be non-zero, in which case you must specify
values for channel, target, and enclosure. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-i |
<filename> |
Reads the RAID configuration information from the
given .ini filename and creates the RAID configurations on
the specified controllers. |
Mandatory. See Miscellaneous
Options for specific usage information. |
-l or logfile |
<filename> |
Logs command line output to a file. |
Optional. See Miscellaneous
Options for specific usage information. |
-o |
<filename> |
Reads the RAID configurations from all available
controllers and write these configurations in the given .ini filename. |
Mandatory. See RAID
Replication Options for specific usage information. |
-r or raid |
<valid RAID level number> |
Sets the RAID level for the array. Valid RAID values are 0, 1, 5, 10, 50. If no value is specified for RAID, 0is taken as the default level. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-rp or readpolicy |
ra, ara, nra, rc, nrc |
Sets the read policy for the virtual disk. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-se or setenvironment |
NA |
Sets a user-defined environment
variable to the value returned from the function call. The function
calls are: getcontrollerslots, getfirmware,
getcontrollertype, getadisks, getadiskcount, getfreeadisks, getfreeadiskcount,
getfreeadisksize, and gethotspares. |
Mandatory. See Setting
Environment Variables for specific usage information. |
-si or silent |
NA |
Does not display any information on the terminal
console. |
Optional. See Miscellaneous
Options for specific usage information. |
-sp or spanlength |
<number> |
The span size of RAID 5, which is
a mandatory parameter for RAID 50. NOTE: Spanlength is applicable
for RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60. The minimum permissible spanlength
value is 2for RAID 10, 3for RAID
50 and 4for RAID 60. The number of array disks for
creating virtual disks should not be a prime number and should be
divisible by the specified spanlength. |
Mandatory. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-sz or size |
<number> |
Sets the maximum size on the virtual
disk in MB or GB if the size is not provided. The
default size is in MB. If GB follows the number, the size is expressed
in GB. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-ssz or stripesize |
<number> |
Sets the stripe size on the virtual
disk in KB. NOTE: When creating virtual disks, do not specify the units for chunk (stripe)
size. The units are always listed in KB. |
Optional. See Creating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-vd or vdisk |
NA |
Displays the virtual disks under all of the controllers
along with the physical array disks that make up the virtual disks. |
See Enumerating Virtual
Disks for specific usage information. |
|
<valid virtual disk ID number> |
Displays the specified virtual disk. |
Optional. See Enumerating
Virtual Disks for specific usage information. |
-ver or version |
NA |
Displays the version number of the utility. |
Optional. See Miscellaneous
Options for specific usage information. |
-wp or writepolicy |
wb, wt, wc, nwc, fwb |
Sets the write policy for a virtual disk. The valid
arguments are: wb (writeback caching), wt (write-through caching), wc (write-caching), nwc (no-write-caching), and fwb (force-write-back). |
Optional. See Miscellaneous
Options for specific usage information. |