CLI Guide

Option Valid Arguments Short Description Mandatory or Optional
NOTE: When creating virtual disks,
do not specify the units for chunk
(stripe) size. The units are always
listed in KB.
See Creating Virtual Disks for
specic 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 specic usage information.
<valid virtual disk ID
number>
Displays the specied virtual disk.
Optional.
See Enumerating Virtual Disks
for specic usage information.
-ver or
version
NA Displays the version number of the utility.
Optional.
See Miscellaneous Options for
specic 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
specic usage information.
RAID Conguration Utility Options And Arguments
The following tables document valid options, parameters, and arguments along with a description of the expected behavior of each option.
Options, parameters, and pre-dened arguments are case-sensitive and entered in lowercase, unless stated otherwise. The information is
grouped by task in the following sections:
• General Help
• Enumerating RAID Controllers
• Setting Environment Variables
• Importing and Clearing Foreign Congurations
• Resetting The Controller
• Enabling And Disabling Persistent Dedicated Hot Spares
• Assigning, Unassigning, And Listing Global Hot Spares
• Setting And Displaying The PCIe Link Speed
• Setting Boot Mode
• Conguring Auto Import
• Creating Virtual Disks
• Initializing Virtual Disks
• Enumerating Virtual Disks
• Deleting Virtual Disks
• Setting A Virtual Disk As Bootable Virtual Disk
• Blinking And Unblinking Virtual Disks
• Setting Virtual Disk Name
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