HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................................... 9
Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 9
Related documentation ................................................................................................................ 9
Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................. 10
HP technical support ................................................................................................................. 11
Subscription service .................................................................................................................. 11
HP websites ............................................................................................................................. 11
Documentation feedback ........................................................................................................... 11
1 Overview ........................................................................................ 13
Scope .................................................................................................................................... 13
Constraints on name strings ....................................................................................................... 13
Known limitations ..................................................................................................................... 13
Working with dynamic volumes in Windows 2003/2008 ....................................................... 13
Expanding a partition (file system) on Windows 2003/2008 .................................................. 14
General comments .................................................................................................................... 14
Template/root names .......................................................................................................... 14
Synchronous and asynchronous operations ............................................................................ 14
Virtual disks in DPM groups ................................................................................................. 15
2 Using the VSM command line interface .............................................. 17
Syntax ..................................................................................................................................... 17
Syntax rules ....................................................................................................................... 18
Basic interactive help (console mode) .................................................................................... 19
Summary of special symbols ................................................................................................ 20
Returned execution status ..................................................................................................... 20
CLI file location ........................................................................................................................ 21
Automating storage-related tasks ................................................................................................ 21
Creating PiTs ..................................................................................................................... 21
Creating multiple copies ...................................................................................................... 21
Backup ............................................................................................................................. 21
CLI command guidance ............................................................................................................. 22
General CLI control commands ............................................................................................ 24
AllowExecErrors and DisallowExecErrors commands ......................................................... 24
GoTo command ........................................................................................................... 24
OnErrorGoTo command ............................................................................................... 25
Pause command .......................................................................................................... 25
Quit command ............................................................................................................ 26
Multiple VSM domains ....................................................................................................... 26
ListVSMDomains command ........................................................................................... 26
ListVSMs command ...................................................................................................... 26
SelectVSMDomain command ........................................................................................ 27
Virtual disk manager commands .......................................................................................... 27
BackupSetup command ................................................................................................ 27
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform Manager command line interface user
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