HP NetRAID-4M Controller - Manual (Page 107)

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Working with Container
Attributes
A container is a logical disk created from freespace and made up of
one or more partitions on one or more physical disks. A container
can span multiple physical disks and can be larger than any one of
the physical disks. See the Flexible Array Storage Tool User’s Guide for
a discussion of container concepts.
Before you can work with containers, you must have previously
opened the controller. See Opening and Closing a Controller in
Chapter 3, for a description of how to open a controller. In addition,
you must have initialized your disk or disks to prepare them for
container operations. See Working with Disks in Chapter 4 for a
description of how to initialize a disk.
This chapter explains how to use the CLI to manage container
attributes. Container attributes are characteristics of a container that
you administer or display using the CLI. The following sections
describe how to display, and, if appropriate, manipulate the
container attributes. Subsequent chapters describe how to create
containers.
The following table provides a quick reference to the topics covered
in this chapter:
For information about… Turn to ...
Understanding Container Identification Attributes page 6-2
Understanding Container Creation Attributes page 6-14
Understanding Container Size Attributes page 6-15