Users guide

Intel® RAID Software User Guide 300
10.6 Frequently Used Tasks
10.6.1 Showing the Version of the Storage Command Line
Tool
The following command shows the version of the command line tool:
Storcli -v
10.6.2 Showing StorCLI Help
The following command shows the command line tool help:
Storcli -h
Help appears for all the StorCLI commands.
10.6.3 Showing System Summary Information
The following command shows the summary of all the controller information:
Storcli -show [all]
10.6.4 Showing Free Space in a Controller
The following command shows the free space available in the controller:
Storcli /cx show freespace
10.6.5 Adding Virtual Drives
The following command creates a virtual drive:
Storcli /cx add vd
type=raid[0|1|5|6|10|50|60][Size=<VD1_Sz>,<VD2_Sz>,..|*all]
[name=<VDNAME1>,..] drives=e:s|e:s-x|e:s-x,y [PDperArray=x|auto*]
[SED] [pdcache=on|off|*default][pi]
[DimmerSwitch(ds)=default|automatic(auto)|
*none|maximum(max)|MaximumWithoutCaching(maxnocache)] [wt|*wb]
[
nora|*ra] [*direct|cached] [CachedBadBBU|*NoCachedBadBBU]
[strip=<8|16|32|64|128|256|512|1024] [AfterVd=x]
[Spares=[e:]s|[e:]s-x|[e:]s-x,y] [force]
The following inputs can be used when adding virtual drives:
• The controller in which the virtual drives are created.
• The RAID type of the virtual drives. The supported RAID types are 0, 1, 5, 6, 10,
50, 60.
• The size of each virtual drive.