CLI Guide

Option Valid Arguments Short Description Mandatory or Optional
-o <filename>
Reads the RAID congurations from all
available controllers and write these
congurations in the given .ini lename.
Mandatory.
See RAID Replication Options
for specic 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 specied for RAID, 0is taken
as the default level.
Optional.
See Creating Virtual Disks for
specic usage information.
-rp or
readpolicy
ra, ara, nra, rc, nrc
Sets the read policy for the virtual disk.
Optional.
See Creating Virtual Disks for
specic usage information.
-se or
setenvironment
NA
Sets a user-dened 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 specic usage
information.
-si or silent
NA Does not display any information on the
terminal console.
Optional.
See Miscellaneous Options for
specic 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 specied
spanlength.
Mandatory.
See Creating Virtual Disks for
specic 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
specic usage information.
-ssz or
stripesize
<number>
Sets the stripe size on the virtual disk in
KB.
Optional.
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