CLI Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 9
Preface...................................................................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Using the VPlexcli....................................................................................................... 11
Logging in to the CLI..........................................................................................................................................................11
Password Policies.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Valid Password Characters........................................................................................................................................ 12
Logging out from the CLI.................................................................................................................................................13
CLI context tree................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Context tree searching.....................................................................................................................................................13
Navigate the CLI context tree........................................................................................................................................ 14
pushd and popd commands....................................................................................................................................... 15
Where am I in the context tree?.............................................................................................................................. 15
Using CLI commands.........................................................................................................................................................17
Page output................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Tab completion............................................................................................................................................................. 18
Wildcards........................................................................................................................................................................19
Names............................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Specifying addresses.................................................................................................................................................. 20
Command globbing..................................................................................................................................................... 20
Positional command arguments................................................................................................................................21
Search command history........................................................................................................................................... 22
View command history............................................................................................................................................... 22
Get help......................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Chapter 3: Commands................................................................................................................. 23
advadm dismantle..............................................................................................................................................................27
alias....................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
array claim...........................................................................................................................................................................30
array forget..........................................................................................................................................................................31
array re-discover............................................................................................................................................................... 32
array used-by......................................................................................................................................................................34
back-end degraded list.....................................................................................................................................................36
back-end degraded recover............................................................................................................................................38
batch-migrate cancel....................................................................................................................................................... 39
batch-migrate check-plan...............................................................................................................................................40
batch-migrate clean.......................................................................................................................................................... 41
batch-migrate commit......................................................................................................................................................42
batch-migrate create-plan.............................................................................................................................................. 43
batch-migrate pause........................................................................................................................................................ 45
batch-migrate remove..................................................................................................................................................... 46
batch-migrate resume...................................................................................................................................................... 47
batch-migrate start.......................................................................................................................................................... 48
batch-migrate summary.................................................................................................................................................. 50
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