Administrator Guide

Contents

1 Introduction...........................................................................................................6

Other information you may need.........................................................................................................6

2 About the Dell Storage enclosure......................................................................8

Dell PowerVault MD3060e................................................................................................................... 8

Front panel features and indicators................................................................................................8

Back-panel features and indicators................................................................................................9

Dell Storage MD1400 series..................................................................................................................9

Front panel features and indicators................................................................................................9

Back-panel features and indicators..............................................................................................10

Server Hardware Manager installation ...............................................................................................10

MPIO (Multipath I/O)..................................................................................................................... 10

Graphical installation......................................................................................................................11

Silent installation............................................................................................................................ 11

Uninstalling Server Hardware Manager...............................................................................................11

Command line interface................................................................................................................ 11

Windows Explorer..........................................................................................................................12

3 Storage enclosure command line interface...................................................13

Using the command line interface..................................................................................................... 13

Command syntax structure................................................................................................................ 14

Parameter glossary..............................................................................................................................14

Managing your storage enclosure......................................................................................................16

Identifying installed HBAs..............................................................................................................16

Identifying enclosures and EMMs................................................................................................. 16

Identifying drawers........................................................................................................................ 17

Identifying drives............................................................................................................................17

Updating drives..............................................................................................................................18

Update EMM firmware...................................................................................................................19

4 CLI reference.......................................................................................................20

Commands listed by type...................................................................................................................20

Drive commands.................................................................................................................................20

Blink drive...................................................................................................................................... 20

Drive power....................................................................................................................................21

List commands.................................................................................................................................... 22

List adapters...................................................................................................................................22

List physical enclosures.................................................................................................................22