NEC Express 5800 Series - Page 84

SSA Scripting 84
OnlineSpare=*
You can use OnlineSpare=* instead of specifying the actual paths (OnlineSpare=1E:1:1, 1E:1:2).
Advantage
You can use all available, unassigned drives as spares for the configuration without knowing the number of
drives available or their actual paths.
Observe the following guidelines:
 You cannot exceed the controller settings for maximum number of spares allowed in an array, typically
eight spares.
 You cannot combine this command with Drive=*, because the script processes the Drive specification
first and uses all available drives for that action, leaving no unassigned drives for the OnlineSpare
request.
Example
Add a logical drive to the configuration using all unassigned drives as spares:
Controller=Slot1
Array=A
Drive=1E:1:1, 1E:1:2
OnlineSpare=*
LogicalDrive=1
RAID=1
DriveType=SCSI | SAS | SATA | SATASSD | SASSSD
You can specify what type of drive to use in a configuration.
Advantage
You can ensure that only a certain type of drive is used in a configuration where multiple drive types exist.
Example
Create one volume using all existing SAS solid state drives, and create one volume using all existing SATA
drives:
Controller=Slot1
Array=A
Drive=*
DriveType=SASSSD
LogicalDrive=1
RAID=0
Array=B
Drive=*
DriveType=SATA
LogicalDrive=2
RAID=0
Size=MAXMBR
You can use this command to limit the size of the volume to 232 blocks (2 TiB), which is the largest bootable
volume supported on MBR-based systems.
Advantage
You configure the largest possible, bootable volume size regardless of the free space available, provided that
the free space is at least 2 TiB.