Create Vdisk - HP 2000fc Cli Reference Manual

create vdisk

Description
Creates a virtual disk using the specified RAID level, disk drives, and optional
vdisk spares. All disks used in a virtual disk and its spares must be either SAS or
SATA; mixing disk types is not supported. The following table specifies the number
of disks supported for each virtual disk type, as determined by its RAID level.
Table 3-1 Number of Disk Drives Required for Each RAID Level
RAID Level
NRAID (non-RAID)
0
1
3
5
6
10
50
Input
create vdisk level nraid|raid0|r0|raid1|r1|raid3|r3|raid5|r5
|raid6|r6|raid10|r10|raid50|r50 disks disks
[assigned-to a|b|auto] [spare disks] [chunk-size 16k|32k|64k]
[mode online|offline] name
Parameter
level nraid|raid0|r0|
raid1|r1|raid3|r3|raid5
|r5|raid6|r6|raid10|r10
|raid50|r50
disks disks
Minimum–Maximum Number of Disk Drives
1
2–16
2
3–16
3–16
4-16
4–16
6–32
Description
Specifies the RAID level.
Specifies a range or list of disk-drive IDs.
RAID 10 requires a minimum of two RAID-1
sub-vdisks each having two drives. RAID 50
requires a minimum of two RAID-5 sub-vdisks
each having three drives. For the syntax to use,
see "Disk Drive Syntax" on page 25.
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