CLI Guide

startDate
A specific date on which you want to create a snapshot (legacy) virtual disk and
perform a copy-on-write operation. The format for entering the date is MM:DD:YY.
If you do not provide a start date, the current date is used. An example of this
option is startDate=06:27:11.
scheduleDay
A day of the week on which you want to create a snapshot (legacy) virtual disk and
perform a copy-on-write operation. The values that you can enter are: monday,
tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, and all. For
example:
scheduleDay=wednesday.
startTime
The time of a day you want to create a snapshot (legacy) virtual disk and start
performing a copy-on-write operation. The format for entering the time is HH:MM,
where HH is the hour and MM is the minute past the hour. Use a 24-hour clock. For
example:
startTime=14:27, which corresponds to 2:27 PM.
scheduleInterv
al
Amount of time, in minutes, that defines a minimum between two copy-on-write
operations. It is possible for you to create a schedule in which you have
overlapping copy-on-write operations because of the duration of a copy
operation. You can ensure that copy-on-write operations maintain a correct
interval by using this option. The maximum value for the scheduleInterval
option is 1440 minutes. For example: scheduleInterval=180.
endDate
Specific date to stop creating a snapshot (legacy) virtual disk and end the copy-on-
write operations. The format for entering the date is MM:DD:YY, where MM is the
month, DD the day and YY the year. For example: endDate=11:26:11.
timesPerDay
The number of times you want the snapshot schedule to run in a day. For example,
timesPerDay=4.
timeZone
Use this parameter to define the time zone in which the storage array is operating.
You can define the time zone in one of two ways:
• GMT±HH:MM—The time zone offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in hours
and minutes. For example, GMT-06:00 is the central time zone in the United
States.
• Text string—A standard time zone text string, in quotation marks. For
example, "USA/Chicago" or "Germany/Berlin". Time zone text strings are case
sensitive. If you enter an incorrect text string GMT is used.
The code string for defining a schedule is similar to these examples:
enableSchedule=true schedule startTime=14:27
enableSchedule=true schedule scheduleInterval=180
enableSchedule=true schedule timeZone=GMT-06:00
enableSchedule=true schedule timeZone="USA/Chicago"
If you also use the scheduleInterval option, the lowest value of the timesPerDay option and the
scheduleInterval option is used. The firmware calculates an integer value for the
scheduleInterval option by dividing 1440 by the scheduleInterval option value that you set. For
example, 1440/180 = 8. The firmware then compares the
timesPerDay integer value with the calculated
scheduleInterval integer value and uses the smaller value.
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