Saving a configuration to a file – Dell PowerVault MD3260i User Manual
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profile command, but is constrained to the specific component. (The following commands are not complete
commands. For information about a command, see the referenced section next to the command.)
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show controller (RAID Controller Module Commands)
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show physicalDisks (Show Physical Disk)
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show physicalDiskchannels stats (Show Physical Disk Channel Statistics)
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show storageArray hostTopology (Show Storage Array Host Topology)
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show storageArray lunmappings (Show Storage Array LUN Mappings)
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show allVirtualDisks (Show Virtual Disk)
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show diskGroup (Show Disk Group)
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show virtualDisk reservations (Show Virtual Disk Reservations)
The following commands also return information about a storage array:
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show storageArray autoConfigure (Show Storage Array Auto Configure)
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show controller NVSRAM (Show RAID Controller Module NVSRAM)
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show storageArray unreadableSectors (Show Storage Array Unreadable Sectors)
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show virtualDiskCopy sourceCandidates (Show Virtual Disk Copy Source Candidates)
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show virtualDiskCopy targetCandidates (Show Virtual Disk Copy Target Candidates)
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show virtualDisk performanceStat (Show Disk Group Import Dependencies)
For descriptions of the show commands, including examples of the information returned by each command, see Script
Commands. Other commands can help you learn about your storage array. To see a list of the commands, see
Commands Listed By Function. These commands are organized by the storage array activities that the commands
support. (Examples include virtual disk commands, host commands, enclosure commands, and others.)
Saving A Configuration To A File
CAUTION: When you write information to a file, the script engine does not check to determine if the file name
already exists. If you choose the name of a file that already exists, the script engine writes over the information in
the file without warning.
After you have created a new configuration or if you want to copy an existing configuration for use on other storage
arrays, you can save the configuration to a file. To save the configuration, use the save storageArray
configuration command. Saving the configuration creates a script file that you can run on the command line. The
following syntax is the general form of the command:
save storageArray configuration file="filename"
[(allconfig | globalSettings=(TRUE | FALSE)) |
virtualDiskConfigAndSettings=(TRUE | FALSE) |
hostTopology=(TRUE | FALSE) | lunMappings=(TRUE |
FALSE)]
You can choose to save the entire configuration or specific configuration features. The command for setting this
parameter value looks like the following example:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "save storageArray configuration file=
\"c:\folder\storageArrayconfig1.scr\";"
In this example, the name folder is the folder in which you choose to place the configuration file, and
storageArrayconfig1.scr is the name of the file. Choose any folder and any file name. MD Storage Manager uses the file
extension .scr when it creates the configuration file.
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