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ISE User Guide Initialize and Configure
Command Line Interface
To create volumes using the Command Line Interface (CLI), follow the steps below.
Note.
Cache mode, volume-host mapping, LUN number, and volume size can be modified after the
volume is created.
To view the remaining capacity for volumes of each RAID type within each pool, type
show pool
. Then locate
the Free Capacity section of the resulting console display.
To create a volume using the CLI, use the
create volume
command with the options shown in Table 17. If
a name is not specified, the CLI auto-generates a name in the format
Volume nn
, where
nn
is an incrementing
number starting from
01
. Any auto-generated names that already exist are skipped over.
Table 17: Create Volume Command—CLI
The example command in Table 17 creates a RAID1 volume named Payroll of 100GB from storage pool 2 with
write-back caching and the comment Pay Roll.
The volume name may be up to thirty-two alphanumeric characters long (but may not begin with a numeric
character). The comment may be up to sixty alphanumeric characters long. Special characters are accepted
except those listed in “Command Line Interface (CLI)” on page 45. Text strings with embedded blanks must be
enclosed in quotes as shown in the above example.
The ISE creates the volume and displays a confirmation like that shown in the figure below.
Figure 42. Volume Created Confirmation—CLI
Configuring Hosts
In the ISE, Host Bus Adapter (HBA) port World Wide IDs (WWIDs) are organized into entities called hosts. A
host consists of one or more HBAs under a single name, by which all the HBAs in the host are referenced.
Hosts may contain HBA ports from different host computer systems. Hosts allow convenient mapping of
storage volumes to the HBAs by providing recognizable named entities containing multiple HBAs.
A list of the HBAs by WWID that comprise a given host can be viewed by expanding the host tree element in
the navigation pane of many of the Management Information panels.
Command Options Comment
create --volume= <name>
or
create --volume
--size= <size in GB>
Volume size in GB
--raid1
RAID 1 volume (default)
--pool1
Volume from Pool 1 (default)
--pool2
Volume from Pool 2
--write-back or --wb
Write-back cache policy (default)
--write-through or --wt
Write-through cache policy
--comment= <comment text>
Optional comment
Example:
create --volume=Payroll --size=100 --raid1 --pool2 --wb --comment=”Pay Roll”
Volume 'Payroll' (RAID= 1, Size= 100 GB, Pool= 2, Cache= Write-Back)
Creation started successfully.