HP 3PAR important commands and usage

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I've been recently working with 3PAR arrays for quite some time and thought of put up some important commands and their usage. 3PAR beginers and administrators can make use of this

Below are some common commands for Storage provisioning
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Command to get the paths allocated in the servers
showvlun -v <vv name> -pathsum 
                      showvlun -v <vv name*>
                      showvlun -host <hostname> -pathsum

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Command to get the detailed description of a host
showhost -desc <hostname*> 

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Command to get the detailed host and port information
showhost -d <hostname*>

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Command to display the host set with its members and the hostset in which the host is a member of
showhostset <Hostsetname*>
                      showhostset -host <Hostname>

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Command to display the VV wwn and creation time
showvv -d <vv name*>

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Command to display the VV capacity
showvv <vv name*>

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Command to display VV set with description and members list and the VVset in which the matching VV is member of
showvvset -d <vv Setname>
                      showvvset -vv <vv name*>

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Command to create host
createhost -persona <number> Host <wwn1> <wwn2>

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Rename a host
setvv -name <newname> <oldname>

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Create a Virtual Volume
createvv -pol zero_detect -tpvv AO_FC_NEW <lun name> 100g
                      createvv -cnt 3 <cpg name> <vv name> 100g

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To add a virtual volume to a VVset
createvvset -add <vv set name> <vv name>

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To extend a virtual volume. The below command will add 10 gb to the current space
growvv <vv name> 10g

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Command to add a server to an existing host set                                     
createhostset -add <ExistingHostSet> <HosttoAdd>

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Command to export a virtual volume to a host
createvlun <vv name> <HostLUNNumber> <hostname>

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Command to create a super user
createuser -c <password> <username> all super

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To unexport a VV from a host
removevlun –f <VVname> <HostLUNnumber> <hostname>
                      removevlun set:<VVSet> <LUN id> set:<hostset>

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Now when it comes to troubleshooting 3PAR storage, here are some useful commands.
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Display new alerts in the system
showalert -n

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Display the system model, serial number and details
showsys -d

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Displays information about tasks
showtask -active -t <hours> -all -type <pattern with wild characters*>
                      showtask –d <TaskID>

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Display the BIOS and OS version
showeeprom

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Displays the system events occurred during the last 20 minutes
showeventlog -min 20

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Displays the operating environment status for all nodes in the system
shownodeenv

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Display the physical disk parameters
showpd -c <DiskID> - to see the chunklet details
                      showpd -i <DiskID> -- to see the disk details with wwn 
                      showpd -s <DiskID>  -- Show the disk detailed state
                      showpd -failed -degraded  - To look failed physical disks
                      showpdch -fail  ---- shows every Failed Chunklet in the system
                      showpdvv 12 | grep -i <vv name>

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Display the IP address of the array
shownet

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To see the users connected to the array
showuserconn

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Display the the FC port link status errors
showportlesb single 1:0:2
                      showportlesb hist -startt 01/20 6:3:4
                      showport -state node:slot:port

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Displays the LD details
showld -d
                      showld -state -sortcol 3

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Display the cage details
showcage -d <Cage number

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To check delayed ack’s on 3Par firmware 2.3.1  -- Need to login as root (spdood)
Run several times to check to see if the numbers are increasing.
The command on 3.1.x OS version is statcmp
showmemval kernel7 none u32 6 delay_ack_count_per_dev  -- 
                      kernel 7 is node 7

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To identify the disk with high response time and IOPS
statpd -iter 3 -sortcol 9 -filt avgs,t,svct,100
                      statpd -w <WWN>
                      statpd -iter 3 -sortcol 9
                      statpd -p -devtype NL -sortcol 9 -d 5
                      statpd -iter 2 -sortcol 4 -filt avgs,t,iops,300

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Display the VLUN performance for non idle devices with R/W separated and the interval and in a timed loop
statvlun -iter 1  -d 30 -rw -ni -<host name>
                      statvv -iter 5 <vv name>  

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Displays read/write (I/O)  and queue length statistics for ports
statport -iter 5
                      statport -nodes <node number>

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Hope the above commands are some useful to you when managing and troubleshooting 3PAR storages
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Albert WidjajaIT Professional
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Thanks for the sharing, is there any updated command for the Flash (SSD) array OS to 3.2.2  ?
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Albert WidjajaIT Professional
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Great, thanks man !
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Hi SHB,

Does any of the command that you showed here can cause any outage or safe to be executed under maintenance mode during business hours?
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Most of them are show commands. However the remove commands, if not used with intended parameters/details may cause outage

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