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Dell PowerVault Series Recovery Manual

About The Command Line Interface

How To Use The Command Line Interface

Command Line Parameters

Formatting Considerations

Exit Status

Usage Examples

About The Script Commands

Script Command Structure

Script Command Synopsis

Recurring Syntax Elements

Usage Guidelines

Configuring A Storage Array

Determining What Is On Your Storage Array

Saving A Configuration To A File

Using The Create Virtual Disk Command

Using The Auto Configure Command

Modifying Your Configuration

Setting The Storage Array Password

Setting The RAID Controller Module Clocks

Assigning Global Hot Spares

configuring alert notifications

Using The Snapshot Feature

Snapshot Consistency Groups

Understanding Snapshot Repositories

Creating A Snapshot Image

Creating A Consistency Group Snapshot Image

Deleting A Snapshot Virtual Disk Or A Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk

Starting, Stopping And Resuming A Snapshot Rollback

Creating A Snapshot Group

Creating A Consistency Group

Adding A Member Virtual Disk To A Consistency Group

Removing A Member Virtual Disk From A Consistency Group

Setting Snapshot Virtual Disk Repository Virtual Disk Capacity

Reviving Disk Groups, Physical Disks, Snapshot Groups, And Snapshot Virtual Disks

Using The Snapshot (Legacy) Feature

Using Host Servers To Create An Initial Snapshot Virtual Disk

Creating A Snapshot Virtual Disk

Preparing Host Servers To Create An Initial Snapshot Virtual Disk

Creating A Snapshot Virtual Disk With Software-Assigned Physical Disks

Creating A Snapshot Virtual Disk By Specifying A Number Of Physical Disks

User-Defined Parameters

Names Of Snapshot Virtual Disks And Repository Virtual Disks

Stopping And Deleting A Snapshot Virtual Disk

Re-creating A Snapshot Virtual Disk

Using The Virtual Disk Copy Feature

Creating A Virtual Disk Copy

Enabling The Virtual Disk Copy Feature

Copying The Virtual Disk

Viewing Virtual Disk Copy Properties

Changing Virtual Disk Copy Settings

Recopying A Virtual Disk

Recopying The Virtual Disk

Interaction With Other Features

Using The Remote Replication Premium Feature

Replication Pairs And Replication Repositories

Resynchronization

Previous Users Of Remote Replication (Legacy) Premium Feature

Setting Up Remote Replication

Adding Primary Virtual Disk To Remote Replication Group

Adding Secondary Virtual Disk To Remote Replication Group

Deleting A Remote Replication Group

Interaction With Other Premium Features

Using The Remote Replication (Legacy) Premium Feature

Replication Repository Virtual Disks

Link Interruptions Or Secondary Virtual Disk Errors

Creating A Remote Replicated Pair

Performance Considerations

Changing Remote Replication (Legacy) Settings

Removing A Replication Relationship

Snapshot Virtual Disks

Virtual Disk Expansion

Maintaining A Storage Array

Running A Consistency Check With A Media Scan

Resetting A RAID Controller Module

Synchronizing RAID Controller Module Clocks

Changing RAID Levels

Defragmenting A Disk Group

Creating SSD Cache

Collecting Physical Disk Data

Recovery Operations

Reconstructing A Physical Disk

Initializing A Virtual Disk

Script Commands

Firmware Compatibility Levels

Host Topology Commands

RAID Controller Module Commands

Session Command

SSD Cache Commands

Virtual Disk Commands

Virtual Disk Copy Commands

PowerVault Series