Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 - Frequently Used Tasks; Showing the Version of the Storage Command Line Tool; Showing Storcli Help; Showing System Summary Information

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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Chapter 6: StorCLI
Frequently Used Tasks
Input example:
storcli /c0 show dequeue log=<c:\test\log.txt>
6.7 Frequently Used Tasks
6.7.1 Showing the Version of the Storage Command Line Tool
The following command shows the version of the command line tool:
Storcli -v
6.7.2 Showing StorCLI Help
The following command shows the command line tool help:
Storcli -h
Help appears for all the StorCLI commands.
6.7.3 Showing System Summary Information
The following command shows the summary of all the controller information:
Storcli -show [all]
6.7.4 Showing Free Space in a Controller
The following command shows the free space available in the controller:
Storcli /cx show freespace
6.7.5 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|awb] [nora|*ra]
[*direct|cached]
[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.
 The drives that are used to create the virtual drives.
drives = e:s|e:s-x|e:s-x,y
Where: