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I've been recently working with 3PAR arrays for quite some time and thought of put up some important commands and their usage. 3PAR beginers and administrators can make use of thisBelow are some common commands for Storage provisioning
Command to get the paths allocated in the servers
Command to get the detailed description of a host
Command to get the detailed host and port information
Command to display the host set with its members and the hostset in which the host is a member of
Command to display the VV wwn and creation time
Command to display the VV capacity
Command to display VV set with description and members list and the VVset in which the matching VV is member of
Command to create host
Rename a host
Create a Virtual Volume
To add a virtual volume to a VVset
To extend a virtual volume. The below command will add 10 gb to the current space
Command to add a server to an existing host set
Command to export a virtual volume to a host
Command to create a super user
To unexport a VV from a host
Now when it comes to troubleshooting 3PAR storage, here are some useful commands.
Display new alerts in the system
Display the system model, serial number and details
Displays information about tasks
Display the BIOS and OS version
Displays the system events occurred during the last 20 minutes
Displays the operating environment status for all nodes in the system
Display the physical disk parameters
Display the IP address of the array
To see the users connected to the array
Display the the FC port link status errors
Displays the LD details
Display the cage details
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To check delayed ack’s on 3Par firmware 2.3.1 -- Need to login as root (spdood)
Run several times to check to see if the numbers are increasing.
The command on 3.1.x OS version is statcmp
To identify the disk with high response time and IOPS
Display the VLUN performance for non idle devices with R/W separated and the interval and in a timed loop
Displays read/write (I/O) and queue length statistics for ports
Hope the above commands are some useful to you when managing and troubleshooting 3PAR storages