User's Manual

Using The Storage Management Command-Line Interface

Storage Management has a fully featured command-line interface (CLI). For more information on CLI, see

the Server Administrator Command Line Interface User’s Guide.

Displaying The Online Help

Storage Management provides an extensive online Help. This Help is available from the Server

Administrator graphical user interface when the Storage or lower-level tree view object is selected.

The online Help is available as:

• Context-sensitive Help — Each Storage Management page has a icon. Click this icon to display

the context-sensitive online Help that describes the contents of the displayed page.

• Table of Contents — The table of contents is available in the page that displays the information when

you access the context-sensitive Help.

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Common Storage Tasks

This section provides information on commonly performed storage tasks:

• Create and configure virtual disks (RAID configuration). For more information, see:

– Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard — This topic provides information on using the Express Wizard

to create a virtual disk. Using the Express Wizard is the quickest method for creating a virtual disk.

The Express Wizard is appropriate for novice users.

– Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard — This topic provides information on using the Advanced

Wizard to create a virtual disk. The Advanced Wizard requires a good knowledge of RAID levels

and hardware and is appropriate for advanced users.

– Virtual Disks — This topic provides detailed information regarding the virtual disk management.

This information includes controller-specific considerations that affect virtual disk creation and

management.

• Assign a hot spare to the virtual disk — When a virtual disk uses a RAID level, you can assign a hot

spare (backup physical disk) to rebuild data if a physical disk in the virtual disk fails.

– Protecting Your Virtual Disk With A Hot Spare — This topic provides information on hot spares and

controller-specific information.

• Perform a Check Consistency — The Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks task verifies

the accuracy of the redundant data on a virtual disk.

• Reconfigure a Virtual Disk — To expand the capacity of a virtual disk you can add physical disks to the

virtual disk. You can also change the RAID levels. For more information, see Virtual Disk Task:

Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3).