lsmdiskcandidate
Use the lsmdiskcandidate command to list all unmanaged MDisks by MDisk ID.
Syntax
>>- lsmdiskcandidate -- --+----------+-- -----------------------> '- -nohdr -' >--+-----------------------+----------------------------------->< '- -delim -- delimiter -'
Parameters
- -nohdr
- (Optional) By default, headings are displayed for each column
of data in a concise style view, and for each item of data in a detailed
style view. The -nohdr parameter suppresses the
display of these headings.Note: If there is no data to be displayed, headings are not displayed.
- -delim delimiter
- (Optional) By default in a concise view, all columns of data are space-separated. The width of each column is set to the maximum possible width of each item of data. In a detailed view, each item of data has its own row, and if the headers are displayed, the data is separated from the header by a space. The -delim parameter overrides this behavior. Valid input for the -delim parameter is a one-byte character. If you enter -delim : on the command line, the colon character (:) separates all items of data in a concise view; for example, the spacing of columns does not occur. In a detailed view, the data is separated from its header by the specified delimiter.
Description
This command displays a list of MDisks that are unmanaged. Only the MDisk IDs are displayed.
When back-end controllers are added to the Fibre Channel SAN and
are included in the same switch zone as a cluster, the cluster automatically detects the back-end
controller to determine which storage is presented to the node. The SCSI logical units that are
presented by the back-end controller are displayed as unmanaged MDisks. However, if the
configuration of the back-end controller is modified after this has occurred, the cluster might be
unaware of these configuration changes. You can then request that the cluster rescan the Fibre Channel SAN to update the list of unmanaged MDisks.
Note: The automatic
detection performed by the cluster does not write anything to a unmanaged MDisk. It is only when you
instruct the cluster to add an MDisk to a storage pool or use a MDisk to create an image mode volume
that the storage is actually used.
Check to see which MDisks are available by issuing the detectmdisk command to manually scan the Fibre Channel network for any MDisks. Issue the lsmdiskcandidate command to show the unmanaged MDisks. These MDisks have not been assigned to an storage pool. Alternatively, you can issue the lsmdisk command to view all of the MDisks.
An invocation example
lsmdiskcandidate
The resulting output:
id
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14