CLI Guide

Parameter Description
NOTE: This option is only valid for enablement
if the drives, the controller, and the host bus
adapter are all DA-capable.
Security Type
The securityType parameter is valid for physical disks that are capable of self-encrypting disk (SED).
With SED, the RAID controller module firmware can create a key and activate the physical disk security
feature. The physical disk security feature encrypts data as the data is written to the physical disk and
decrypts the data as the data is read from the physical disk. Without the key created by the RAID
controller module, the data written to the physical disk is inaccessible.
Before you can set the securityType parameter to capable or enabled, you must create a storage array
security key. Use the
create storageArray securityKey command to create a storage array
security key. These commands are related to the security key:
• create storageArray securityKey
• export storageArray securityKey
• import storageArray securityKey
• set storageArray securityKey
• start secureErase (physicalDisk | physicalDisks)
• set physical disk securityID
Secure physical disks
Secure-capable drives can be either Self Encrypting Disk (SED) drives or Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS) drives. Use the physicalDiskDrives parameter to specify the type of secure physical
disks to use . The values you can use are fips and sed.
NOTE: The controller firmware does not support a mix of SED and FIPS physical disks within disk
groups and disk pools.
Example command
create diskPool physicaDiskType=SAS userLabel="FIPS_Pool" physicalDiskCount=11
securityType=capable secureDrives=fips;
Create Host
Description
This command creates a new host. If you do not specify a host group in which to create the new host,
the new host is created in the default group.
Syntax
create host userLabel=”hostName”
[hostGroup=(“hostGroupName” | defaultGroup)]
[hostType=(hostTypeIndexLabel |
hostTypeIndexNumber)]
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