Dell PowerVault User Manual

Start Physical Disk Channel Blink
Description
This command identifies the expansion enclosures that are connected to a specific physical disk port by
turning on the indicator lights for the expansion enclosure that is connected to the physical disk port. Use
the stop physicalDiskChannel blink command to turn off the indicator lights on the expansion
enclosure.
Syntax
start physicalDiskChannel [(1 | 2)] blink
Parameters
Parameter Description
physicalDiskChannel
The identifier number of the physical disk channel
that you want to locate. Valid values for the
identifier number are 1 or 2. Enclose the identifier
number in square brackets ([ ]).
Start Physical Disk Channel Fault Isolation Diagnostics
Description
This command runs the physical disk channel fault isolation diagnostics and stores the results.
Syntax
start physicalDiskChannel [(1 | 2)]
controller [(0 | 1)] faultDiagnostics
testDevices=[(all | controller=(0 | 1) |
emms=[enclosureID1 slotID1, enclosureID2 slotID2... enclosureIDn slotIDn]
|
physicalDisks= (
enclosureID1,slotID1... enclosureIDn,slotIDn)]
| (dataPattern=(fixed | pseudoRandom) |
patternNumber=[(0xhexadecimal | number)] |
maxErrorCount=integer | testIterations=integer |
timeout=timeInterval)
Parameters
Parameter Description
physicalDiskChannel
The identifier number of the physical disk channel
that you want to locate. Valid values for the
identifier number are 1 or 2. Enclose the identifier
number in square brackets ([ ]).
controller
The identifier letter of the RAID controller module
that you want to test. Valid RAID controller module
360

Dell PowerVault Specifications

General

RAID Levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
RAID Support	Yes
Drive Type	SAS, SSD
Interface	SAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI
Category	Storage
Connectivity	Ethernet, Fibre Channel
Scalability	Yes
Operating System Compatibility	Windows, Linux, VMware
Management Software	PowerVault Manager, OpenManage