User guide
Table Of Contents
- MSA1000 User Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Operating System Specific Information
- Chapter 3: MSA1000 Setup and Sample Configurations
- Chapter 4: Operation and Management
- Chapter 5: Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
- Installing the ACU on the Server
- Accessing the ACU
- Description of Screen Regions
- Configuring a New Controller
- Modifying an Existing Controller
- Probability of Logical Drive Failure
- Chapter 6: Command Line Interface (CLI)
- CLI Overview
- CLI Setup
- Help Commands
- Display Commands
- Array Controller Configuration Commands
- LUN Management Commands
- Server Connection Commands
- Selective Storage Presentation/Access Control List Commands
- Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance Notices
- Appendix B: Electrostatic Discharge
- Appendix C: Specifications
- Appendix D: Hard Drive Arrays
- Appendix E: Recovering from Hard Drive Failure
- Appendix F: Controller Display Messages
- Appendix G: Recovery ROM and ROM Cloning
- Appendix H: SCSI ID Assignments
- Index

Command Line Interface (CLI)
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Example CLI Response
The following display is a continuation of the previous example, creating three
LUNs on the same group of physical drives.
CLI> ADD UNIT 1 DATA=”DISK111-DISK114” RAID_LEVEL=5
STRIPE_SIZE=32 SIZE=1000MB
First volume to be configured on these drives.
The logical unit size has been adjusted by 4MB for optimal
performance.
Logical Unit size = 996 MB
RAID overhead = 498 MB
Total space occupied by new unit = 1494 MB
Free space left on this volume = 24533 MB
Unit 1 is created successfully.
CLI> ADD UNIT 2 DATA=”DISK111-DISK114” RAID_LEVEL=5
STRIPE_SIZE=32 SIZE=2000MB
Logical Unit size = 2000 MB
RAID overhead = 1000 MB
Total space occupied by new unit = 3000 MB
Free space left on this volume = 21533 MB
Unit 2 is created successfully.
CLI> ADD UNIT 3 DATA=”DISK111-DISK114” RAID_LEVEL=5
STRIPE_SIZE=16 SIZE=4000MB
Logical Unit size = 4000 MB
RAID overhead = 2000 MB
Total space occupied by new unit = 6000 MB
Free space left on this volume = 15533 MB
Unit 3 is created successfully.
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