Quick Reference Guide

Option Valid Arguments Short Description Mandatory or Optional
or
channel:target:enclo
sure
case you must specify values for
channel, target, and
enclosure.
NOTE: From DTK 2.4 onwards,
the -fd option creates
dedicated hot spares instead of
global hot spares. To set global
hot spares, see Assigning,
Unassigning, And Listing Global
Hot Spares.
-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
Optionsfor 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
setenvironm
ent
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.
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