HP Storage Essentials V5.1 CLI Guide First Edition (T4283-96029, August 2006)

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• <size in MB> - is the size of the pool in megabytes.

appiqcreate -pool <pool id 1>…<pool id n> -extents

<extent id 1>…<extend id n> -storagesetting

Description: Creates a storage pool with the specified unconfigured pools, storage setting, size

and storage pool name.

where:

• <pool id> - is an unconfigured pool ID The pool ID can be obtained from several methods,

such as from the appiqlist -device -storagesystem <storage system id>

-pool command.

• <extent id 1> is the extent identifier. This command currently supports only one extent

identifier.

• <storage setting id> - is the storage setting ID for the new pool. You can obtain the

storage setting ID from one of the following commands:

• appiqshow -device -storage system <storagesystem id> -pool

• appiqlist -pool <id> -storagesetting

• appiqshow -pool <id> -storagesetting - This command also shows supported

sizes for each of the storagesetting.

• <size in MB> - is the size of the pool in megabytes.

appiqdelete -pool <pool id>

Description: Deletes a storage pool, where <pool id> is the identifier for the storage system

pool. The identifier for the storage system pool can be obtained from several methods, such as from

the appiqlist -device -storagesystem <storage system id> -pool command.

Sorting the Information Displayed

This software provides several commands that let you sort the information displayed. Before you

can use the commands for sorting information on Windows, you must install Cygwin, which is

accessible from http://www.cygwin.com/. Cygwin is a program that simulates a Linux environment.

Cygwin is required because the following commands include the grep command, which is not

recognized by Windows but it is recognized by Linux. If you have the CLI installed on Windows,

the commands mentioned in this section must be typed in the Cygwin interface. Refer to the Cygwin

Web site for technical questions and issues.

If you have not already done so, connect to the management server. See the topic, ”Before Using

the CLI” on page 2.

Sorting Hosts by Number of HBAs

To sort hosts by number of host bus adapters, enter the following at the command prompt:

# appiqlist -fabric -all -host | grep "^Host:" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn