Reference Guide

Option Valid Arguments Short Description Mandatory or
Optional
-c or
controlleri
d
<valid controller ID
number>
Specifies a RAID controller. See Enumerating RAID
Controllers for specific
usage information.
-cp or
cachepolicy
d, c or d, e
Specifies the cache policy for
reads on a specified virtual disk
or disk cache policy.
Optional.
See Creating Virtual
Disks for specific
usage information.
-ctrl or
controller
NA Displays a list of the supported
RAID controllers in the system,
along with select property
information.
Mandatory, must be
typed in the correct
order.
See Enumerating RAID
Controllers for specific
usage information.
-envc or
envcommand
<string>
Sets a user-defined
environmental variable (<string>)
to the value returned from a
function call.
See Setting
Environment Variables
for specific usage
information.
-envn or
envname
<string>
Sets the environment variable
(<string>) that equates to the
value returned from a function
call.
See Setting
Environment Variables
for specific usage
information.
-fd or
failoverdri
ve
ch:targ, ch:targ, ...
or ch:targ:lun,...
or ch:targ:enc
channel:target, or
channel:target:lun,
or
channel:target:enclo
sure
Specifies the location of the
failover drive in an array.
For SCSI controllers, the value of
LUN should always be 0.
For SAS controllers, the value of
enclosure can be non-zero, in
which case you must specify
values for channel, target,
and enclosure.
NOTE: From DTK 2.4
onwards, the -fd option
creates dedicated hot
spares instead of global hot
spares. To set global hot
spares, see Assigning,
Unassigning, And Listing
Global Hot Spares.
Optional.
See Creating Virtual
Disks for specific
usage information.
-i <filename>
Reads the RAID configuration
information from the given .ini
filename and creates the RAID
configurations on the specified
controllers.
Mandatory.
See Miscellaneous
Options for specific
usage information.
-l or
logfile
<filename>
Logs command line output to a
file.
Optional.
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