Useful EMC VMAX CLI commands

Over the years I collected a number of useful CLI commands to control the DMX / VMAX machines I worked with. Even though nowadays Unisphere for VMAX is a useful tool, nothing really beats the command line!

CLI forever!

Why? It provides the output you need when running the commands you type. There’s no need to search for the right pull down menu, since you directly type whatever you need.

Create devices

Size Number Script (type this in a txt file and run a symconfigure command with -f file.txt)
22GB 6 create dev count=6, size=24000 CYL, emulation=FBA, config=TDEV, binding to pool=FC, preallocate size=24000 CYL;
44GB 12 create dev count=12, size=48000 CYL, emulation=FBA, config=TDEV, binding to pool=FC, preallocate size=48000 CYL;
55GB 200 create dev count=200, size=60000 CYL, emulation=FBA, config=TDEV; binding to pool=FC, preallocate size=600000 CYL;
77GB 6 create dev count=6, size=84000 CYL, emulation=FBA, config=TDEV, binding to pool=FC, preallocate size=84000 CYL;

If you don’t want to preallocate the space, simply leave that part out.

Symdev show

Every little detail on symdevs can be viewed using the infamous “symdev show” command. Suppose you want to see the naa-number which you can also see in VMware VCenter, run the following command (mind the number of spaces before the colon):

symdev -sid 1234 show 567 | find “Device WWN           :” Device WWN           : 60000960000305701165533144353499

Symdev change

If you need to enlarge a tdev you don’t need to add meta members anymore on VMAX3 or VMAX All Flash. Simply change its size and you’re done!

symdev -sid 123 modify AA -tdev -cap 3072 -captype gb

This will change TDEV AA size to 3072 GB

Naming symdevs

symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd “set dev 567 device_name=’Cluster1_VMFS_017′ ;” commit

 

SymCFG

symcfg list Information on all managed VMAX arrays
symcfg -sid 1234 disco Discover all available information about VMAX with serial ending with 1234
symcfg –sid 1234 list –ra all –switched Show all SRDF ports

Symaccess

symaccess -sid 1234 list view List masking views Created for Array 1234 with related groups details
symaccess -sid 1234 list assignment -dev 9A0:9AF Shows the masking details of devices from ports 9A0 to 9AF
symaccess -sid 1234 list no_assignments -dirport 12f:1 Shows the devices are mapped to 12f:1 but not masked
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup List all groups named MyGroup
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup –v List all groups named MyGroup and also shows the related Masking Views
symaccess -sid 1234 list devinfo -ig MyInitiator List the details of devices assigned to the initiator group MyInitiator
symaccess -sid 1234 -f MyBackup.txt backup Creates a binary file MyBackup.txt containing all masking data of this array
symaccess -sid 1234 -f MyBackup.txt restore Restores all masking information from the specified backup file to the array
symaccess -sid 1234 create -name Windows_IG -type initiator Create initiator group Windows_IG
symaccess -sid 1234 -type initiator –name Host1 create -wwn 1000000000000001 Creates an initiator group called Host1 by adding the specified wwn
symaccess -sid 1234 -type initiator –name Host1 add –wwn 1000000000000002 Add the specified wwn in to the existing initiator group Host1
symaccess -sid 1234 -type port –name 3E0_4E0_13E0_14E0 –dirport 3e:0,4e:0,13e:0,14e:0 create Create the portgroup 3E0_4E0_13E0_14E0 with specified ports
symaccess -sid 1234 -type storage –name Host1 create devs AAA:AAB Create the storage group Host1 with specified range of devices
symaccess -sid 1234 -type storage –name Host1 add devs AAA:AAB Add the specified range of devices to the existing storage group Host1
symaccess -sid 1234 create view –name Host1_Allocation -sg Host1 -pg 3E0_4E0_13E0_14E0 -ig Host1 Create a masking Host1_Allocation view combined with specified groups (SG, PG and IG)
symaccess -sid 1234 rename -wwn 500110a00016f0be -alias ADCN70/vsan20 Rename wwn to alias
symaccess –sid 1234 list logins Show all logged in initiators
symaccess -sid 1234 create -name Windows_SG -type storage devs 1AAA,1AAB,1AAC Create a storage group containing these devices
symaccess -sid 1234 create view -name Windows_MV -sg Windows_SG -pg PG_5+6_EA -ig Windows_IG -lun 001 Create Masking View (Starting at LUN number 001)
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage|port|initiator (-name some-name -detail -v) List groups
symaccess -sid 1234 show view masking-view-name List masking view

 

Port flags

symaccess -sid 1234 -name VMware_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on C,SC3,SPC2 -enable Set the port flags for the VMware initiator group
symaccess -sid 1234 -name Windows_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on C,SC3,SPC2,OS2007 –enable Set the port flags for the Windows initiator group
symaccess -sid 1234 -name Linux_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on C,D,SC3,SPC2,OS2007 –enable Set the port flags for the Linux initiator group
symaccess -sid 1234 -name Solaris_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on C,D,SC3,SPC2,OS2007 -enable Set the port flags for the Solaris initiator group
symaccess -sid 1234 -name HP-UX_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on C,V,SC3,SPC2,OS2007 -enable Set the port flags for the HP-UX initiator group
symaccess -sid 1234 -name AIX_IG -type initiator set ig_flags on SC3,SPC2,OS2007 -enable Set the port flags for the IBM AIX initiator group

 

SRDF

symdg create DGName type r1/r2  Create a device group of type r1 or r2
symrdf –g DGName suspend  Suspend replication of this device group
symrdf –g DGName query  Query the rdf status of this device group
symrdf -sid 1165 -rdfg 1 que -f rdf.txt -i 5 Query the rdf status of tdevs in this file every 5 seconds
symrdf –g DGName resume/establish Resume/start replication of this device group
symdg delete DGName -force  Delete this device group

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