DR Series Software 4.0.3 - Command Line Reference Guide

CAUTION: The system --shutdown command powers off the appliance on which the DR Series system software is installed. Once the appliance is in a powered off state, you may only be able to power on the appliance in two ways: at its physical location, or by using an iDRAC connection on the network.

Syntax

Result

Please enter administrator password:
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Wed Oct 20 11:00:58 2012):
The system is being shutdown NOW!

system --upgrade

Description

Upgrades the version of the DR Series system software installed on a supported DR Series hardware appliance.

Syntax

NOTE: To obtain the latest DR Series system upgrade image, go to the Support website (support.quest.com/DR-Series), enter your service tag or select your product, and download the latest DR Series system software upgrade image file to the local system using WinSCP.

NOTE: Prior to performing a DR Series system CLI-based upgrade, make sure to download the DR Series system upgrade image. To initiate a DR Series system software upgrade for Windows users using the DR Series system CLI, the system software upgrade image file (in tar.gz format) is validated by the DR Series system, renamed to DRSeries_payload.tar.gz, and transferred to a directory/store location known to the DR Series system.

When you use the DR Series system CLI system --upgrade command, the DR Series system looks in this known directory/store location for the DRSeries_payload.tar.gz file, and starts the system software upgrade process.

NOTE: If the SSH session is lost for any reason during the upgrade process, this loss terminates the SSH session and also terminates the upgrade process that was running. If this SSH session loss occurs during an upgrade process and results in a terminated session, you should reboot the DR Series system and retry the system software upgrade process.

system --license [--validate] [--add]

Description

Validates and installs the license for the external data storage you can add using the expansion shelf enclosures to the base DR Series system. The expansion shelf licenses are based on the size of the expansion shelves; for details on expansion shelves, see DR Series System Drive and System Capacities. There are two ways that expansion shelf licenses can be purchased: point of sale (POS) and after point of sale (APOS).

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POS licenses are those ordered from the factory with the DR Series system hardware appliance and the expansion shelf enclosures.

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APOS licenses are those ordered later separately for new expansion shelves or for existing Dell MD1200 storage arrays intended for use as expansion shelf enclosures.

NOTE: The 300 Gigabyte (GB) drive capacity (2.7 TB) version of the DR Series system does not support the addition of expansion shelf enclosures.

There are two ways to obtain the expansion shelf enclosure license (license.xml):

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By downloading the license file from the Support website (support.quest.com/DR-Series), in which you enter your service tag or navigate to your DR Series system type, then click Get Drivers.

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By using an email link from Dell where the license file resides.

Once you have located the license file for expansion shelf enclosure use WinSCP to copy it to the /store/license, which is a location known by the DR Series system software.

NOTE: Each added expansion shelf enclosure must be equal to or greater than each DR Series system internal drive slot capacity (0–11). Because 1 TB drives are the smallest ones supported by the expansion shelf enclosure you add, the 600 Gigabyte (GB) DR Series systems need to use 1 TB or larger sized drives in any expansion shelf enclosure added to the base system.