Working with container promotion, Understanding container reconfiguration in a unix, Environment 9-6 – HP NetRAID-4M Controller User Manual

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9-6

Command Line Interface User’s Guide

To change a volume set to a stripe set, use the

container

reconfigure

command with the /stripe switch, as in the following

example. In the example, the /stripe switch causes the existing
volume set on container 0 to be changed to a stripe set. A stripe size
is not specified, so the default stripe size of 32K (kilobytes) is used.

HPN0> container reconfigure /stripe=TRUE 0

Executing: container reconfigure /stripe=TRUE 0

After running the

container reconfigure

command to change

a container’s type, use the

container list

command to display

information about the container, as in the following example. In the
example, the Type column indicates that container 0 is now a Stripe
set. The Stripe Size column indicates that the stripe size is 32KB
(kilobytes).

HPN0> container list

Executing: container list

Cluster Num Total Oth Stripe Scsi Partition

Dr Partner Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage C:ID:L Offset:Size

-- ------- ----- ------ ------ --- ------ ------- ------ -------------

0 0 Stripe 100MB 32KB None 2:01:0 64.0KB: 100MB

Understanding Container Reconfiguration in a UNIX
Environment

On UNIX systems, the message displayed after you execute the

container reconfigure

command includes the root special file

associated with the newly reconfigured container.

When you perform a container reconfigure operation on a UNIX
operating system you may see a resource conflict-related error.
Typically, this error occurs when there is not enough space on the
disk to perform the reconfigure operation. To correct the problem,
use another disk (with more space) to perform the reconfigure
operation.

Working with Container Promotion

The CLI allows you to promote a container through the use of the

container promote

command. The

container promote

command allows you to promote a stripe set of volume sets to a
multi-level volume set. The

container promote

command

results in a container of single-partition volume sets, each of which
has a single partition from the original container.

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