User guide

The options for each category are listed in the following table and described in more detail in the
remainder of this section.
DescriptionOptionsCategory
Use these options to define the overall behavior of ACU when it processes
scripts and creates configurations. Control options can occur only once in
a script file and must be listed first.
Action
Method
Control
Use these options to specify the controller you are configuring (or the
controller that had its configuration captured). Although the Controller
Controller
ChassisName
Controller
option must begin this section of the script, you can script other options in
this category in any order.
ClearConfigurationWithDataLoss
You can use one script file to configure all controllers in a system, and you
can configure the controllers identically or individually. If you define each
DeleteLicenseKey
DPOEnable
controller configuration individually, enter the option values for one
ElevatorSortEnable
controller and its arrays and logical drives before specifying the option
values for another controller.
ExpandPriority
IRPEnable
LicenseKey
MNPDelay
PreferredPathMode
QueueDepth
ReadCache
RebuildPriority
SSPState
SurfaceScanDelay
WriteCache
Use these options to describe an array you are configuring on the controller
previously specified in the script. (If no controller was previously specified,
Array
Drive
Array
ACU stops processing the script and creates an error file.) Although the
DriveType
Array option must begin this section of the script, you can script the other
options in this category in any order.
OnlineSpare
Use these options to describe a logical drive you are configuring on an
array previously specified in the script. (If no array was previously
ArrayAccelerator
LogicalDrive
Logical
Drive
specified, ACU stops processing the script and creates an error file.)
LogicalDriveSSPState
Although the LogicalDrive option must begin this section of the script, you
can script the other options in this category in any order.
ParityGroups
PreferredPath
RAID
Sectors
Size
SSPAdaptersWithAccess
StripeSize
Use these options to specify an HBA you are configuring.ConnectionNameHBA
HBA_WW_ID
HostMode
Control category
The Control category has the following options:
• “Action mode” (page 34)
• “Method mode” (page 34)
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