Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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Managing with the CLI

Options

-a <action>

Specifies the action to perform.

auto

Automatic configuration with no options. Creates an optimized disk

array. One or more logical drives are created automatically.

expr

Express configuration. RAID level is dependant on the options

chosen.

-r <y|n>

Selects the redundancy option.

-p <y|n>

Selects the performance option.

-c <y|n>

Selects the capacity option.

-s <y|n>

Includes a spare drive in the array.

Note: Requires 5 or more unconfigured physical drives.

-t <AppType>

Specifies the intended application for this array.

video

Sequential large block reads.

data

Random read/write mix, small to medium sized IO.

log

Sequential small block write.

other

Random read/write mix, small to medium sized IO.

fileserver

Random read/write mix, small to medium sized IO.

-l <num of LDs>

Specifies how many logical drives to include in the configuration.

Array capacity is divided evenly among the logical drives.

Examples

config -a auto

config -a expr -ry -p y -c n -sy -t data -l2

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