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esxcli corestorage Command-Line Options
Some esxcli corestorage commands, for example the commands that you run to add new claim rules, remove
the rules, or mask paths, require that you specify certain options.
Table B-1. esxcli corestorage Command-Line Options
Option Description Required Option
-r <claimrule_ID>
Use to specify the order number for the claim
rule from 0 to 65535.
-t <type>
Use to define the set of paths for the claim
rule. Specify one of the following values for
the <type> variable:
These options change depending on the value
you enter for <type>.
vendor – Indicate the vendor and model of
the storage device used for this path.
-V <vendor> -M <model>
Use asterisk (*) to specify all vendors or
models.
location – Indicate the adapter, channel,
target, or LUN used for this path.
Use any of the following:
n
-A <adapter>
n
-C <channel>
n
-T <target>
n
-L <lunID>
driver – Indicate the driver used for the
path.
-D <driver>
transport – Indicate the transport used for
the path.
-R <transport>
Use one of the following for the <transport>
variable:
n
block – Raid block devices, such as cciss
n
fc – Fibre Channel
n
iscsi – Default iSCSI
n
iscsivendor – iSCSI with vendor
supplied IMA
n
ide – IDE
n
sas – Serial attached SCSI
n
sata – Serial ATA
n
usb – USB storage devices
n
parallel – Parallel SCSI devices
n
unknown – Unknown storage device type
-P <MPP_name>
Indicate which MPP plug-in should claim
the paths defined by the claim rule.
Run the vicfg-mpath --list-plugins
command to see valid values.
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