Working with adding a level to a container, Understanding container promotion in a unix, Environment 9-8 – HP NetRAID-4M Controller User Manual

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Command Line Interface User’s Guide

container ID is 0, and an underlying Volume set, whose container ID
is 63. (Container 63 is a hidden container.) These two containers
make up a stripe set of volume sets.

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

0 63 Volume 100MB 2:01:0 64.0KB: 100MB

Understanding Container Promotion in a UNIX Environment

On UNIX systems, the message displayed after you execute the

container promote

command includes the root special file

associated with the newly reconfigured container.

Working with Adding a Level to a Container

The CLI allows you to add a level to a container. The container add
level feature creates a multi-level volume set on top of an existing
container. The existing container cannot be a multi-level container.
You

use the

container add_level

command to add a level to a

container. The

container add_level

command can be executed

while the container is in use.

To work with adding a level to a container, you must understand:

The container add level attributes you can specify

How to add a level to a container

Adding a level to a container in a UNIX environment

The following sections discuss each of these topics.

Understanding the Container Add Level Attributes You can
Specify

You use the

container add_level

command to add a level to a

container. The

container add_level

command has no

attributes.

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