Enabling a raid-5 set’s raw container cache, Specifying a label for a raid-5 set – HP NetRAID-4M Controller User Manual

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Working With Single-level Containers

Executing: container create raid5 /stripe_size=65,536

((CHANNEL=2,ID=1,LUN=0), 104,857,600)

(CHANNEL=2,ID=2,LUN=0)(CHANNEL=2,ID=3,LUN=0)

Container 0 created

Enabling a RAID-5 Set’s Raw Container Cache

The controller provides two global cache buffer pools available to
containers: a volatile read-ahead cache and a non volatile NVRAM
write-back cache. Collectively, these global caches are referred to as
the raw container cache.

The

container create raid5

command provides a

/cache

switch that allows you to enable the container’s raw cache.

In the following example, the

container create raid5

command with the /cache switch creates a RAID-5 set with the raw
container cache enabled.

HPN0> container create raid5 /cache=TRUE ((2,1,0), 100M)

(2,2,0)(2,3,0)

Executing: container create raid5 /cache=TRUE

((CHANNEL=2,ID=1,LUN=0), 104,857,600) (CHANNEL=2,ID=2,LUN=0)

(CHANNEL=2,ID=3,LUN=0)

Container 0 created

If you use the

/cache

switch, the controller:

Enables the read-ahead cache setting for the specified RAID-5
set.

Enables the NVRAM write-back cache setting for the specified
volume set if a battery is present and its status is Ok.

If you do not use the

/cache

switch, you can enable the RAID-5

set’s raw container cache later with the

container set cache

command. See Chapter 9, Modifying Containers, for more
information on how to enable a RAID-5 set’s raw container cache
after creating it.

Specifying a Label for a RAID-5 Set

The

container label

attribute identifies a name assigned to a

container. Note that this label is not the label that displays in
Windows Explorer and Disk Administrator. You can specify a
container label while creating a RAID-5 set or at a later time using
the

container set label

command. See Displaying and Setting a

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