HP Array Configuration Utility Command Line Interface for Integrity Linux Environments Support Notes Version 8.
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Table of Contents HP ACU-CLI Overview..........................................................................................................................5 Supported Configurations......................................................................................................................5 Installation and Usage Instructions........................................................................................................5 Installing HP ACU-CLI:............................................
HP ACU-CLI Overview The HP Array Configuration Utility Command Line Interface (HP ACU-CLI) is a command-line-based disk configuration tool that can be used to configure and manage Smart Array Controllers and RAID Array Controllers in Integrity Linux environments. HP ACU-CLI is available as a part of the HP Insight Foundation Suite for Integrity with Linux and can be obtained from the Linux on HP Integrity Servers web site: http://www.hp.
• • • • • the device name mapping might change after you first reboot the system. Also, after rebooting, Linux might see logical drives that were previously not visible. This name mapping problem is common to all SCSI devices on Linux. Do not insert or remove a controller driver module when hpacucli is running. Stop the HP Storage Agents when deleting logical drives since HP Storage Agents keep all logical drives open.
NOTE: To avoid creating this adverse condition, the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux installer will not install the HP ACU-CLI (hpacucli) product on these servers and this option is not displayed in the product installation menu. Further, if hpacucli is detected on the system, it is uninstalled by the installer. Workaround: If multiple logical drives are required on a given SmartArray controller, use the ORCA utility at the EFI shell to configure them.
• Using HP ACU-CLI on HP Integrity cellular servers is slow. THIS ISSUE WAS FIXED IN THE 8.28 RELEASE. Using HP ACU-CLI on HP Integrity cellular servers (for example, an rx8640 server is cell-based) is extremely slow. Operations within hpacucli, such as “ctrl all show” status can take several minutes to finish. This issue does not occur on non-cellular HP Integrity servers.
Workaround: You must totally power off the HW partition and then power on in order to see the logical volume. • Cannot query the logical volume size using the “create” command. THIS ISSUE WAS FIXED IN THE 7.65 RELEASE. The logical volume size cannot be successfully queried using the “create” command. Workaround: None at this time. • OS fails to recognize configuration changes. THIS ISSUE WAS FIXED IN THE 7.65 RELEASE.
