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Syncro CS 9286-8e Solution User Guide
November 2014 Chapter 3: Creating the Cluster
Creating Virtual Drives on the Controller Nodes
3.1.2 Creating Shared or Exclusive VDs with StorCLI
The Storage Command Line Tool, StorCLI, is the command-line management utility for MegaRAID, that you can use to
create and manage VDs. StorCLI can run in any directory on the server. The following procedure assumes that a
current copy of the 64-bit version of StorCLI is located on the server in a common directory as the StorCLI executable
and the commands are run with administrator privileges.
1. At the command prompt, run the following command:
storcli /c0/vall show
The c0 parameter presumes that there is only one Syncro CS 9286-8e controller in the system or that these steps
reference the first Syncro CS 9286-8e controller in a system with multiple controllers.
The following figure shows some sample configuration information that appears in response to the command.
Figure 11 Sample Configuration Information
The command generates many lines of information that scroll down in the window. You must use some of this
information to create the shared VD.
2. Find the Device ID for the JBOD enclosure for the system and the Device IDs of the available physical drives for the
VD that you will create.
In the second table in the preceding figure, the enclosure device ID of 252 appears under the heading EID, and
the device ID of 0 appears under the heading DID. Use the scroll bar to find the device IDs for the other physical
drives for the VD.
Detailed drive information, such as the drive group, capacity, and sector size, follows the device ID in the table
and is explained in the text below the table.
3. Create the shared VD using the enclosure and drive device IDs with the following command line syntax:
Storcli /c0 add vd rX drives=e:s
The HA-DAS version of StorCLI creates, by default, a shared VD that is visible to all cluster nodes.