Administrator Guide

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Contents

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

2 Other information you may need ..................................................................... 7

For the Dell PowerVault MD3060e ......................................................................................................7

For the Dell PowerVault MD1200 Series ..............................................................................................7

For the Dell Storage MD1280 .............................................................................................................. 8

For the Dell Storage MD1400 Series ....................................................................................................8

3 About the Dell Storage enclosure......................................................................9

4 Installation procedure ...................................................................................... 10

Server Hardware Management installation — Windows....................................................................10

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

Graphical installation.....................................................................................................................10

Silent installation............................................................................................................................10

Uninstalling server hardware management ................................................................................. 11

Server Hardware Management Installation –Linux............................................................................ 11

DMMP ............................................................................................................................................ 11

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

Silent installation............................................................................................................................12

Console uninstallation...................................................................................................................12

5 Server hardware command line interface......................................................13

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

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

Command help .............................................................................................................................16

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

PERC or MegaRaid controllers ...........................................................................................................16

Identifying enclosures and EMMs....................................................................................................... 17

Identifying enclosures....................................................................................................................17

Identifying drives................................................................................................................................. 18

Updating drives....................................................................................................................................19

Updating EMM firmware................................................................................................................19

6 CLI reference....................................................................................................... 21

Commands listed by type....................................................................................................................21

Drive commands................................................................................................................................. 21

Blink drive.......................................................................................................................................21