Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases - Manual (Page 20)

Quick-Start Tasks
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This section outlines a variety of basic but important tasks you can perform with the CLI. For
details on command usage, refer to the Command-Line Reference that follows.
Other common but less-critical tasks are outlined in Appendix B: Common CLI Tasks .
MANAGEMENT TASKS
By running several CLI commands, you can create a basic storage configuration for your ION
Accelerator appliance. For more information on each of these commands and others, refer to the
Command-Line Reference section that follows, including the Help commands.
Here are some basic tasks you can complete:
1. Create a Profile, based on the type of performance and reliability you need. For example:
profile:create maximum_performance
This creates a storage pool with a RAID 0 array. (See Profile Commands in the Command-Line
Reference section for more information.)
2. Create volumes in the storage pool that can be exported later as LUNs. For example:
volume:create newvolume 8 pool_md
This creates a volume called
newvolume
. It has a capacity of 8GB (the second parameter),
using the
pool_md
storage pool.
3. Create initiator groups, so you can manage access to LUNs. For example:
inigroup:create mygroup <ini1 WWN> <ini2 WWN> <etc.>
This creates an initiator group named
mygroup
, with initiators optionally assigned to the
group by WWN.
4. Populate each initiator group with the desired initiators. See Sample Command Set below for
more information.
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