Create Volume - IBM BladeCenter S SAS RAID Controller Module Installation And User Manual

Where:
v [ENCLOSURE]:[TRAY] - Specifies the drive bay number by enclosure number and
tray number.
v [0|1|10|5] - Allows selection of raid type.
v [0|1] - Allows selection of port.
v [POOL_NAME] - Defines the name of the pool.
A drive pool is a defined set of drives. Each volume that is exposed to host
systems is completely contained within a drive pool. It is important to note that a
drive can only be a member of one drive pool.
This command creates a pool using drives specified by their bay numbers. You can
specify the -raidtype and the owner controller bay number. The pool name can be
a maximum of 12 characters long and can contain alphanumeric and underscores.
Make the pool name unique across the system.
Example:
<CLI> create pool –drives 1:4 1:1 1:3 –raidtype 10 –port 0 –name Group10
Drive Group created with total capacity of 46 GB.

create volume

This command creates a volume of a specified size on a particular pool.
Command arguments:
<CLI> create volume –name poolname:volumename –size number
[%|MB|GB] –seqpostreadcmdsize size –seqreadaheadmargin margin
Where:
v poolname:volumename - Specifies pool name and volume name. Volume name can
be up to 12 characters long and contain alphanumeric and underscores; it must
be unique across pool on which it is created.
v number - Number indicating size of the pool.
v [%|MB|GB] - Allows you to specify size in percentage of total pool capacity, MB,
or GB.
v size - Specifies maximum sector count of a single predictive read ahead.
v margin - Indicates number of sectors in the read ahead buffer.
v
create volume -help
<CLI> create volume
Too many/few parameters for -name option
COMMAND-HELP: create volume
This command is used to create a volume.
Usage : create volume -name [POOLNAME]:[VOLUMENAME] -size [SIZE][UNIT]
[-seqpostreadcmdsize [READCMDSIZE] -seqreadaheadmargin [MARGIN] ]
POOLNAME : Pool's name on which the volume is going to be created
VOLUMENAME : Volume's name to create. It has to be associated with poolname as a pool:volume
pair. Volume name is maximum of 12 characters and contains only alphanumeric and
underscores.
SIZE : Size may be passed in different units.
If % is used, then SIZE value should not be more than '100%' .
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