Creating Virtual Disks - Silicon Graphics InfiniteStorage 6120 User Manual

2.3.8

Creating Virtual Disks

A virtual disk can be created on just a part of a storage pool or uses all of the capacity of a single
storage pool.
To create a virtual disk, use the CREATE VIRTUAL_DISK command:
1. At the CLUI prompt, type:
CREATE VIRTUAL_DISK CAPACITY=<capacity> POOL=<pool-id>
where <capacity> is the capacity of the virtual disk in GiB or type max to use all available
capacity; <pool-id> is the storage pool to be used by this virtual disk
A message is displayed to indicate whether the virtual disk creation was successful.
Figure 34. CREATE VIRTUAL DISKS Example Screen
2. Use the CREATE VIRTUAL_DISK command to add more virtual disks as needed. If you need
to delete a virtual disk, use the DELETE VIRTUAL_DISK <virtual disk-id> command.
NOTE : Virtual disk(s) on a storage pool are NOT accessible until its initialization is
complete.
3. To view the list of configured virtual disks, type SHOW VIRTUAL_DISK *
Figure 35. SHOW VIRTUAL_DISK List Example Screen
SHOW VIRTUAL_DISK <id>
virtual disk
Figure 36. SHOW VIRTUAL_DISK ALL_ATTRIBUTES Example
0 0 7 - 5 5 3 3 - 0 0 1
RAID$ create virtual_disk capacity=16 pool=0
VIRTUAL_DISK 0 OID=0x89ba000 creation STATUS='Success' (0x0)
RAID$ create virtual_disk capacity=32 pool=0
VIRTUAL_DISK 1 OID=0x89bb001 creation STATUS='Success' (0x0)
RAID$ show virtual_disk *
OID: 0x89ba0000 Index: 0x0000 Name: 89ba0000
OID: 0x89ba0001 Index: 0x0004 Name: 89ba0001
ALL_ATTRIBUTES will display detailed information of the
.
(Figure 36)
RAID$ show virtual_disk 0 all_attributes
OID: 0x89ba0000
Name: 89ba0000
POOL OID: 0x19b40000
Capacity: 16384 MBs
Offset: 0x0
State: NOT RDY
Raidlevel: RAID5
IO ROUTING: TRUE
WBC: TRUE
MWBC: FALSE
Initializing: TRUE
Paused: FALSE
AutoWriteLock: FALSE
Critical: FALSE
Present Home Only:FALSE
Current Home: 0x0015b2a122b20000
Future Home: 0xffffffffffffffff
Preferred Home: 0x0015b2a122b20000
BkgdJob OID: 0x28000000
UUID: 60001ff0722b20000000000089ba0000
Configuring the InfiniteStorage 6120
(Figure 34)
0x00000000
0x00000000
0x00000000
.
.
(Figure 35)
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