Dell PowerVault MD3220 Cli Manual page 50

Example of Creating Virtual Disks with User-Assigned Physical Disks
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "create virtualDisk
physicalDisks=(0,0 0,1 0,2) raidLevel=5 userLabel=
\"Engineering_1\" capacity=20 GB owner=0;"
NOTE:
The
or equal to 10 without a space separating the numeric value and its unit of measure.
(For example,
The command in this example automatically creates a new disk group and a
virtual disk with the name Engineering_1. The disk group has a RAID level of
5 (RAID 5). The command uses three physical disks to construct the disk
group. The virtual disk created has a capacity of 20 GB. If each physical disk
has a capacity of 73 GB, the total capacity of the disk group is 219 GB.
Because only 20 GB are assigned to the virtual disk, 199 GB remain available
for other virtual disks that you can later add to this disk group. The segment
size for each virtual disk is 64 KB. Hot spares have not been created for this
new disk group. You must create hot spares after running this command.
Creating Virtual Disks with Software-Assigned Physical Disks
You can let the MD Storage Manager software assign the physical disks when
you create the virtual disk. To have the software assign the physical disks, you
need only specify the number of physical disks to use. The MD Storage
Manager software then chooses the physical disks on which the virtual disk is
created. The RAID controller module firmware assigns a disk group number to
the new disk group. The following syntax is the general form for the command:
create virtualDisk physicalDiskCount=
numberOfPhysicalDisks raidLevel=(0 | 1 | 5 | 6)
userLabel="virtualDiskName" [physicalDiskType=
(SAS | SATA)] [capacity=virtualDiskCapacity |
owner=(0 | 1) | segmentSize=segmentSizeValue]
[enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE | FALSE)])
NOTE:
The
enclosureLossProtect
optional parameters as needed to help define your configuration. You do not,
however, need to use any optional parameters.
This command is similar to the previous create virtualDisk command, which
allows the user to assign the physical disks. This version of the command
requires only the number and the type of physical disks to use in the disk
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Configuring a Storage Array
capacity
parameter returns an error if you specify a value greater than
returns an error, but
10 GB
physicalDiskType capacity
,
parameters are optional. You can use one or all of the
does not return an error).
10 GB
owner segmentSize
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