ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser 14.0 User's Guidefor Virtual Storage Conductor

Appendix B Admin Server Commands

This appendix provides reference for commands used with Virtual Storage Conductor running on the admin server.

To create a large number of virtual resources, or to automate virtual resource operations, script files or batch files (that contain admin server commands) can be created.

Description format

The command description format is as follows:

Standard format

Indicates optional characters or optional strings. Input the data as specified.

Italics

Indicates input characters or input strings.

The following table lists the characters that can be input.

Character type	Meaning	Number of bytes per character
Characters	Characters listed in "Table: Characters that can be input"	1
Numeric	Numeric characters from 0 to 9 of characters	1
Lowercase	Lowercase characters from a to z of characters	1
Uppercase	Uppercase characters from A to Z of characters	1
Special character	"_" (underscore)	1
Alphabetic	Uppercase and Lowercase alphabetic characters	1
Alphanumeric	Alphabetic and numeric characters	1

Uppercase and lowercase characters are distinguished.

Table B.1 Characters that can be input

High-order 4 bits	Low-order 4 bits
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	a	b	c	d	e	f
0
1
2
3	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
4		A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z					_
6		a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o
7	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z

{ a | b }

Select either a or b.

[ a ]

You can omit a.

Underscore

Default value

...

You can specify this repeatedly.

Notes

Command execution privilege

All commands must be executed by a user with root (administrator) privileges.

Resource name

Name each resource (including the virtualization switch, virtual storage pool, physical disk, virtual enclosure, virtual target, and virtual disk) to make it identifiable to users and VSC. These names must be unique in VSC. Example the virtual storage pool and virtual enclosure must not have the same name.