Disk Drive Commands For The 7063-Cr1 System; Mvcli Commands - IBM Power Systems 7063-CR1 Service Manual

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Procedure
You can use the hmcshutdown command to stop and power down the system.
For example, the following command will shut down the system now.
hmcshutdown -t now

Disk drive commands for the 7063-CR1 system

Learn about the disk drive commands for the IBM 7063-CR1 Hardware Management Console system.

mvCLI commands

Learn about the mvCLI commands. They are for SATA drives that are directly connected to the system
backplane without using a PCIe adapter.
Running the mvCLI commands from the HMC operating system
The mvCLI commands are supplied in the HMC operating system. You need root access to run the
command. If the HMC operating system is available, to run the command, use:
su -
and enter the root password to start mvCLI:
/opt/marvell/bin/mvcli
To exit mvCLI mode, enter the command:
exit
Entering "help" at the mvcli command prompt lists the mvcli commands.
Installing mvCLI in the Petitboot environment
To use the mvCLI commands, the mvcli utility must be available. If you need to install the mvcli utility,
use the Petitboot command line to mount the storage that contains the mvcli utility using the following
procedure. The installation lasts during the current Petitboot session; once you reboot, the installation
does not persist.
1. From the Petitboot menu, select Exit to shell.
2. To use the mvcli utility at the Petitboot shell:
v If you have the HMC Recovery ISO file mounted using the Virtual Storage menu option in the
Remote Console, or on a USB key inserted on one of the USB port of the system:
– At the petitboot shell, copy the mvcli utility from /var/petitboot/mnt/dev/sr0/util/marvell
directory to /tmp, then make the mvcli utility executable before running it.
cp /var/petitboot/mnt/dev/sr0/util/marvell/mvcli /tmp
chmod +x /tmp/mvcli
– To run the command; use:
modprobe sg
/tmp/mvcli
v If you need to obtain the mvcli utility over the network, you must first configure the network.
– At the petitboot shell, run the following commands to configure the network:
ip addr add xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx/yyy,yyy.yyy.yyy dev ETHERNET_DEVICE
ip route add default via zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
where: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IPV4 ip address; yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the IPV4 network mask;
zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz is the IPV4 gateway address; and ETHERNET_DEVICE is the network interface
name you can obtain from running ip addr show
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