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... random-access memory. Digital versatile disc or digital video disc. EMI - ERA - Electrostatic discharge. Embedded server management. Central processing unit. Direct current. A comprehensive set of specific processing tasks.
... random-access memory. Digital versatile disc or digital video disc. EMI - ERA - Electrostatic discharge. Embedded server management. Central processing unit. Direct current. A comprehensive set of specific processing tasks.
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... be designed to the processor. Light-emitting diode. Milliampere(s). 4 IRQ - Two devices can be sent to or received by a peripheral device travels by wiring dedicated specifically to a switch that allows selection of changing the circuitry in a board. K - KB - KBps - KVM - LCD - See also bus. Kilo-; 1000. LED - LAN on a circuit board...
... be designed to the processor. Light-emitting diode. Milliampere(s). 4 IRQ - Two devices can be sent to or received by a peripheral device travels by wiring dedicated specifically to a switch that allows selection of changing the circuitry in a board. K - KB - KBps - KVM - LCD - See also bus. Kilo-; 1000. LED - LAN on a circuit board...
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... that contains the CIM schema definition. Media Access Control address. mAh - A managed system is any system that is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Master boot record. Mirroring functionality is often rounded to a network. 5 A portable flash memory storage device integrated with...MBps - MHz - NAS systems have their own operating systems, integrated hardware, and software that connects to serve specific storage needs. managed system - memory address - Milliampere-hour(s). MB - Network Attached Storage. MAC address -
... that contains the CIM schema definition. Media Access Control address. mAh - A managed system is any system that is monitored and managed using Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator. Master boot record. Mirroring functionality is often rounded to a network. 5 A portable flash memory storage device integrated with...MBps - MHz - NAS systems have their own operating systems, integrated hardware, and software that connects to serve specific storage needs. managed system - memory address - Milliampere-hour(s). MB - Network Attached Storage. MAC address -
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... in a rack. Remote access controller. 6 Memory that uniquely identifies an object. You can contain multiple logical drives. pixel - POST - Redundant information that is an implementation-specific integer or pointer that does not lose its contents when you turn off your system, the POST tests various system components such as the number...
... in a rack. Remote access controller. 6 Memory that uniquely identifies an object. You can contain multiple logical drives. pixel - POST - Redundant information that is an implementation-specific integer or pointer that does not lose its contents when you turn off your system, the POST tests various system components such as the number...
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... - Volt(s) direct current. The amount of video memory installed primarily influences the number of pixels across multiple environments. VAC - video adapter - To display a program at a specific graphics resolution, you must install the appropriate video drivers and your monitor must support the resolution. Watt(s). Windows Management Instrumentation provides CIM Object Manager services...
... - Volt(s) direct current. The amount of video memory installed primarily influences the number of pixels across multiple environments. VAC - video adapter - To display a program at a specific graphics resolution, you must install the appropriate video drivers and your monitor must support the resolution. Watt(s). Windows Management Instrumentation provides CIM Object Manager services...
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...connect to a script engine utility in the Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager software (MD Storage Manager). 1 About the Command Line Interface This guide is the graphical user interface (GUI) to the storage array. Each command performs a specific action for destructive commands. You can issue ...by the commands. Selected CLI commands perform functions that can enter individual commands, or run script files when you direct access to a specific storage array and rapidly enter a command, determine the effect on the storage array, and then enter a new command. CLI is...
...connect to a script engine utility in the Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager software (MD Storage Manager). 1 About the Command Line Interface This guide is the graphical user interface (GUI) to the storage array. Each command performs a specific action for destructive commands. You can issue ...by the commands. Selected CLI commands perform functions that can enter individual commands, or run script files when you direct access to a specific storage array and rapidly enter a command, determine the effect on the storage array, and then enter a new command. CLI is...
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...Table 2-2. If you want to include additional information to describe the objects. To perform a command on a specific object, use brackets to overcome this limitation. Specify a subset of identifiers in the storage array (for example...A list of identifiers NOTE: You can have a maximum of identifiers, use a blank space as the delimiter. A qualifier is not referencing a specific object. In a list of 30 characters. Object Types and Identifiers Object Type controller physicalDisk physicalDiskChannel host hostChannel hostGroup hostPort snapshot storageArray enclosure virtualDisk Identifier...
...Table 2-2. If you want to include additional information to describe the objects. To perform a command on a specific object, use brackets to overcome this limitation. Specify a subset of identifiers in the storage array (for example...A list of identifiers NOTE: You can have a maximum of identifiers, use a blank space as the delimiter. A qualifier is not referencing a specific object. In a list of 30 characters. Object Types and Identifiers Object Type controller physicalDisk physicalDiskChannel host hostChannel hostGroup hostPort snapshot storageArray enclosure virtualDisk Identifier...
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.... It is represented by eight 16-bit hexadecimal blocks separated by colons. You may drop leading zeros, and use a double colon to ensure that the specific IPV4 or IPV6 setting is 128 bits. Table 2-4.
.... It is represented by eight 16-bit hexadecimal blocks separated by colons. You may drop leading zeros, and use a double colon to ensure that the specific IPV4 or IPV6 setting is 128 bits. Table 2-4.
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... brief list of these commands is the same as the information returned by the show storageArray profile command, but is constrained to the specific component. (The following show commands return information about a command, see the referenced section next to determine if the file name already ...exists. The information returned by each of the storage array features and components, use the profile parameter. For information about the specific components of a file that already exists, the script engine writes over the information in the file without warning. The command is...
... brief list of these commands is the same as the information returned by the show storageArray profile command, but is constrained to the specific component. (The following show commands return information about a command, see the referenced section next to determine if the file name already ...exists. The information returned by each of the storage array features and components, use the profile parameter. For information about the specific components of a file that already exists, the script engine writes over the information in the file without warning. The command is...
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... physicalDisks= (enclosureID0,slotID0...enclosureIDn,slotIDn) raidLevel=0 | 1 | 5 | 6)userLabel= 48 Configuring a Storage Array The following example: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "save the entire configuration or specific configuration features. Choose any folder and any file name. You must have unassigned physical disks in an existing disk group. save storageArray configuration file="filename...
... physicalDisks= (enclosureID0,slotID0...enclosureIDn,slotIDn) raidLevel=0 | 1 | 5 | 6)userLabel= 48 Configuring a Storage Array The following example: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "save the entire configuration or specific configuration features. Choose any folder and any file name. You must have unassigned physical disks in an existing disk group. save storageArray configuration file="filename...
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... e-mail alert messages to define a password for destructive commands. Setting the Storage Array Password The set storageArray command enables you to specified email addresses when specific events occur. The following example shows how to use the information in a storage configuration, each array has a separate password. CAUTION: Implementing destructive commands can run...
... e-mail alert messages to define a password for destructive commands. Setting the Storage Array Password The set storageArray command enables you to specified email addresses when specific events occur. The following example shows how to use the information in a storage configuration, each array has a separate password. CAUTION: Implementing destructive commands can run...
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To return information about host types connected to define a specific default host type: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray defaultHostType=11;" The value 11 is allocated for virtual disk modification operations affects system ...
To return information about host types connected to define a specific default host type: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "set storageArray defaultHostType=11;" The value 11 is allocated for virtual disk modification operations affects system ...
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... hot_add utility is the minimum information required. Optionally define the capacity of the repository virtual disk. • Define the number of physical disks, but not specific physical disks, for Windows. 64 Using the Snapshot Feature An error message appears in the command line when the utility cannot distinguish between the following...
... hot_add utility is the minimum information required. Optionally define the capacity of the repository virtual disk. • Define the number of physical disks, but not specific physical disks, for Windows. 64 Using the Snapshot Feature An error message appears in the command line when the utility cannot distinguish between the following...
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... Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk CAUTION: Before you create a new point-in-time image of a source virtual disk, stop the copy-on-write operations for a specific snapshot virtual disk, only that you capture an accurate point-in the proper state. Preparing Host Servers to ensure that snapshot virtual disk is disabled...
... Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk CAUTION: Before you create a new point-in-time image of a source virtual disk, stop the copy-on-write operations for a specific snapshot virtual disk, only that you capture an accurate point-in the proper state. Preparing Host Servers to ensure that snapshot virtual disk is disabled...
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...disk copy operation. feature=virtualDiskCopy enable storageArray feature Activates the Virtual Disk Copy feature. show virtualDiskCopy Returns information about a specific virtual disk copy pair, or all virtual disk copy pairs in progress at one time. show virtualDiskCopy sourceCandidates Returns ...about the candidate virtual disks that a suitable target virtual disk exists on the storage array, or create a new target virtual disk specifically for a virtual disk copy pair. stop virtualDiskCopy Stops a virtual disk copy operation. Creating a Virtual Disk Copy Before creating a ...
...disk copy operation. feature=virtualDiskCopy enable storageArray feature Activates the Virtual Disk Copy feature. show virtualDiskCopy Returns information about a specific virtual disk copy pair, or all virtual disk copy pairs in progress at one time. show virtualDiskCopy sourceCandidates Returns ...about the candidate virtual disks that a suitable target virtual disk exists on the storage array, or create a new target virtual disk specifically for a virtual disk copy pair. stop virtualDiskCopy Stops a virtual disk copy operation. Creating a Virtual Disk Copy Before creating a ...
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... priority at three different times in the preceding example requests information about a virtual disk used for another virtual disk copy. If you want information about a specific target virtual disk. Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings The set virtualDiskCopy command enables you can also request information about all virtual disks, use the allVirtualDisks...
... priority at three different times in the preceding example requests information about a virtual disk used for another virtual disk copy. If you want information about a specific target virtual disk. Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings The set virtualDiskCopy command enables you can also request information about all virtual disks, use the allVirtualDisks...
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... Controller Module CAUTION: When you reset a RAID controller module, the RAID controller module is not available for an entire storage array or one battery in a specific RAID controller module.
... Controller Module CAUTION: When you reset a RAID controller module, the RAID controller module is not available for an entire storage array or one battery in a specific RAID controller module.
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If you might need to locate a specific physical disk, turn on the indicator LED on a physical disk, run the following command: start physicalDisk [enclosureID,slotID] blink To turn on the indicator LED... off the indicator LED after locating the physical disk, run the following command: set storageArray time Locating Physical Disks At times, you need to locate a specific physical disk. To determine which virtual disks have reservations, run the following command: clear (allVirtualDisks | virtualDisk[virtualDiskName] | virtualDisks [virtualDiskName1" ... In very large storage array ...
If you might need to locate a specific physical disk, turn on the indicator LED on a physical disk, run the following command: start physicalDisk [enclosureID,slotID] blink To turn on the indicator LED... off the indicator LED after locating the physical disk, run the following command: set storageArray time Locating Physical Disks At times, you need to locate a specific physical disk. To determine which virtual disks have reservations, run the following command: clear (allVirtualDisks | virtualDisk[virtualDiskName] | virtualDisks [virtualDiskName1" ... In very large storage array ...
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...command is unsuccessful or the data compared is not correct, the RAID controller module is then read test compares data with a known, specific data pattern, checking for data integrity and errors. The sense data consists of statistical information maintained by each RAID controller module physical disk...path to the diagnostics region on RAID controller modules that a RAID controller module is failed and placed offline. The read and compared to a specific data pattern. If the test fails on the channel. The write test initiates a write command as it can be sent over an I /O ...
...command is unsuccessful or the data compared is not correct, the RAID controller module is then read test compares data with a known, specific data pattern, checking for data integrity and errors. The sense data consists of statistical information maintained by each RAID controller module physical disk...path to the diagnostics region on RAID controller modules that a RAID controller module is failed and placed offline. The read and compared to a specific data pattern. If the test fails on the channel. The write test initiates a write command as it can be sent over an I /O ...
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.../external) • Status (pass/fail) Events are written to the MEL when diagnostics are started and when testing is included on the Utility directory of specific test results. These events help you make changes to the storage array or to components connected to the storage array (such as hubs, switches, and...
.../external) • Status (pass/fail) Events are written to the MEL when diagnostics are started and when testing is included on the Utility directory of specific test results. These events help you make changes to the storage array or to components connected to the storage array (such as hubs, switches, and...