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SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide

Appendix A:

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Commands

LSI Corporation Confidential

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August 2010

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The commands are not case sensitive. The command descriptions use the

following conventions:



Enter the text in

italic

exactly as shown on the command line.



Replace text enclosed in < > with a required parameter.



Replace text enclosed in [ ] with an optional parameter.



Enter parameters enclosed in { } one or more times, as required for the command

being executed.



Do not enter the command-line definition characters < >, [ ], and { } on the

command line.

A.3.1

Common Command-Line

Parameters

This section describes command-line parameters that are common to more than one

command.



<

controller_#

>

The unique controller number that the program assigns to each

PCI function

found

on supported controller chips in the system, starting with controller # 0. For

example, in a system containing two LSISAS2008 controllers, controller # 0

references the first controller and controller # 1 references the other controller.

Valid controller number values are 0 to 255 (decimal).



<

Enclosure:Bay

>

The enclosure and bay/slot of a peripheral device attached to the bus. The

argument must use a colon (:) as a separator and must follow the

enclosure:bay

format.

Enclosure

is a 16-bit EnclosureHandle value set by the I/O controller (IOC). A

value of 0 is invalid.

Bay/Slot

is a 16-bit slot value set by the IOC. Use the DISPLAY

command to get the enclosure and slot numbers of a drive.

A.3.2

CREATE Command

The CREATE command creates Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS2 controllers.

When you add a disk to an Integrated RAID volume, the volume might not use all of the

disk’s storage capacity.

For example, if you add a 300-GB disk drive to a volume that

only uses 200 GB of capacity on each disk drive, the volume does not use the remaining

100 GB of capacity on the disk drive.

CONSTCHK

X

X

X

X

ACTIVATE

X

X

X

X

LOCATE

X

X

X

X

LOGIR

X

X

X

X

Table 1:

SASIRCU Commands (Continued)

SAS2IRCU

Command

Operating System

DOS

Linux

EFI

WinPE

Section	Page
SAS2 Integrated RAID Solution User Guide	1
Introduction to the Integrated RAID Solution	5
1.1 Overview	5
1.2 Benefits and Features	6
1.2.1 Host Interface	6
1.2.2 Metadata Support	6
1.2.3 SMART Support	6
1.2.4 Fusion-MPT Support	6
Overview of Integrated RAID Mirrored Volumes	7
2.1 Introduction	7
2.2 Integrated Mirroring and Integrated Mirroring Enhanced Features	7
2.3 Operation of Mirrored Volumes	8
2.4 Mirrored Volume Features	11
2.4.1 Resynchronization with Concurrent Host I/O Operation	11
2.4.2 Hot Swapping	11
2.4.3 Hot Spare Disk	11
2.4.4 Online Capacity Expansion	11
2.4.5 Media Verification	11
2.4.6 Disk Write Caching	12
2.4.7 NVSRAM Usage	12
2.4.8 Background Initialization	12
2.4.9 Consistency Check	12
2.4.10 Make Data Consistent	12
Creating Mirrored Volumes	13
3.1 Mirrored Volume Configuration Overview	13
3.2 Creating Mirrored Volumes	13
3.2.1 Creating an Integrated Mirroring Volume	14
3.2.2 Creating an Integrated Mirroring Enhanced or Integrated Mirroring + Striping Volume	15
3.2.3 Expanding an Integrated Mirroring Volume with OCE	16
3.3 Managing Hot Spare Disks	17
3.3.1 Creating Hot Spare Disks	17
3.3.2 Deleting Hot Spare Disks	18
3.4 Other Configuration Tasks	19
3.4.1 Viewing Volume Properties	19
3.4.2 Running a Consistency Check	19
3.4.3 Activating an Array	20
3.4.4 Deleting an Array	20
3.4.5 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume	21
3.4.6 Selecting a Boot Disk	21
Overview of Integrated Striping	23
4.1 Introduction	23
4.2 Integrated Striping Features	23
4.3 Integrated Striping Description	24
Creating Integrated Striping Volumes	25
5.1 Integrated Striping Configuration Overview	25
5.2 Creating Integrated Striping Volumes	25
5.3 Other Configuration Tasks	27
5.3.1 Viewing Volume Properties	27
5.3.2 Activating an Array	27
5.3.3 Deleting an Array	28
5.3.4 Locating Disk Drives in a Volume	28
5.3.5 Selecting a Boot Disk	29
Using the SAS2 Integrated RAID Configuration Utility	31
A.1 Hardware and Software Requirements	31
A.1.1 Controller Support	31
A.1.2 Operating System and Software Support	32
A.2 Interface Description	32
A.3 Commands	32
A.3.1 Common Command-Line Parameters	33
A.3.2 CREATE Command	33
A.3.3 DELETE Command	35
A.3.4 DISPLAY Command	35
A.3.5 HOTSPARE Command	37
A.3.6 STATUS Command	38
A.3.7 LIST Command	39
A.3.8 MFGPAGE Command	40
A.3.9 CONSTCHK Command	40
A.3.10 ACTIVATE Command	40
A.3.11 LOCATE Command	41

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The CREATE command creates Integrated RAID volumes on LSI SAS2 controllers.

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