HP Workstation xw8000 User Manual

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Using the Command Line Interface

Before you can work with arrays, you must have previously
opened the controller. In addition, you must have initialized your
disk(s) to prepare for array operations.

The minimum size of an array is 10 MB.

Before creating any array, use the

disk show space command

to display information about your disks. In the following example,
the Usage column indicates Free for each disk, which means that
the space on each disk consists of available space.

AAC0> disk show space

Executing: disk show space

Scsi C:ID:L Usage

Size

----------- ---------- -------------

2:01:0

Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

2:02:0

Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

2:03:0

Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

2:04:0

Free

64.0KB:8.47GB

After creating an array, use the

container list command to

display information about the array. In the following example, the
Num

Label column indicates the array ID 0 and the array label

Venus

. The Type column indicates a Volume set. The Total Size

column indicates that the array is 100 MB.

AAC0> container list

Executing: container list

Num

Total

Oth Stripe

Scsi

Partition

DrLabel Type

Size

Ctr Size

Usage

C:ID:L Offset:Size

-- ----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ -----------

0

Volume 100MB

None

2:01:0 64.0KB: 100MB

Venus

Creating a Volume Set

To create a volume set, use the

container create volume

command. In the following example, the volume set 0 is created on
SCSI device (2,01,0) from 100MB (megabytes) of available space.
The array’s raw cache is enabled, and the label Venus is specified.

AAC0> container create volume /cache=TRUE /label=Venus

((2,01,0), 100M)

Executing: container create volume /cache=TRUE /

label=Venus ((CHANNEL=2,ID=1,LUN=0),104,857,600)

container 0 created

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