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Syncro CS 9286-8e Solution User Guide
March 2013
Chapter 3: Creating the Syncro CS 9286-8e Configuration
Creating Virtual Drives on the Controller Nodes
The steps for creating a VD are slightly different depending on whether you run MegaCLI in Windows PowerShell® or
from a Windows command prompt. Therefore, two sets of instructions are included.
3.3.2.1 Creating Shared or Exclusive VDs: Running MegaCLI in Windows PowerShell
Follow these steps to create a shared VD with MegaCLI on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 running in Windows
PowerShell.
NOTE Enter the command line entries exactly as shown in the following
instructions, because the syntax used for PowerShell is slightly
different than the syntax used for the Windows command prompt. The
MegaCLI help and documentation do not include syntactical
references to PowerShell.
1. On the Microsoft Server 2012 desktop, right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run as Administrator from the
pop-up menu, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 12 Starting PowerShell
2. At the PowerShell prompt, enter the command cd \lsi\cli to change to the MegaCLI directory.
3. At the PowerShell prompt, run the following command:
.\megacli64 "–cfgdsply –a0"
The -a0 parameter presumes that there is only one Syncro CS 9286-8e controller in the system or that these steps
reference the first Syncro CS 9286-8e controller in a system with multiple controllers.
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