Description, Syntax, Parameters – Dell PowerVault MD3420 User Manual

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Parameter

Description

information about the enclosureLossProtect parameter, see
Enclosure Loss Protection.

drawerLossProtect

The setting to enforce drawer loss protection when you create
the replication repository disk group. To enforce drawer loss
protection, set this parameter to TRUE. The default value is
FALSE.

dssPreAllocate

The setting to make sure that reserve capacity is allocated for
future segment size increases. The default value is TRUE.

securityType

The setting to specify the security level when creating the disk
groups and all associated virtual disks.

• none—The disk group and virtual disks are not secure.
• capable—The disk group and virtual disks are capable of

having security set, but security has not been enabled.

• enabled—The disk group and virtual disks have security

enabled.

For information about securityType, see Security Type.

Create RAID Virtual Disk (Free Capacity Base Select)

Description

This command creates a virtual disk in the free space of a disk group.

Syntax

create virtualDisk diskGroup=[diskGroupName]

userLabel=”virtualDiskName

[freeCapacityArea=freeCapacityIndexNumber

capacity=virtualDiskCapacity

owner=(0 | 1)cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)

segmentSize=segmentSizeValue

usageHint=(fileSystem | dataBase | multiMedia)]

[dssPreAllocate=(TRUE | FALSE)

securityType=(none | capable | enabled)]

Parameters

Parameter

Description

diskGroup

Sequence number of the disk group in which to
create the new virtual disk. (To determine the
sequence numbers of the disk groups in your
storage array, enter the show storageArray
Profile command.)

userLabel

Name for the new virtual disk. You must put
quotation marks (" ") around the new virtual disk
name.

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