Create raid virtual disk on a disk pool, Description, Syntax – Dell PowerVault MD3260i User Manual

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Parameter

Description

enabled—The disk group and virtual disks have

security enabled.

For information about securityType, see Security
Type.

Create RAID Virtual Disk On A Disk Pool

Description

This command creates a new RAID virtual disk on an existing disk pool.

Syntax

create virtualDisk

diskPool="diskPoolName"

userLabel="virtual diskName"

capacity=virtualDiskCapacity[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes]|

[thinProvisioned=(TRUE | FALSE)] |

[owner=(0|1) ] |

[mapping=(none|default) ] |

[dataAssurance=(none|enabled) ] |

[( existingRepositoryLabel=existingRepositoryName |

newRepositoryCapacity=newRepositoryCapacityValue [KB | MB | GB | TB | Bytes]) |

[repositoryMaxCapacity=repositoryMaxCapacityValue[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes] ] |

[warningThresholdPercent=warningThresholdPercentValue ] |

[repositoryExpansionPolicy=(automatic|manual) ] |

[cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)] |

[segmentSize=segmentSizeValue] |

[usageHint=(fileSystem | dataBase | multiMedia)]

Parameters

Parameter

Description

capacity

The size of the virtual disk that you are creating.
Size is defined in units of MB, GB, or TB. The following are

examples of the syntax:

capacity=500MB

capacity=2GB

thinProvisioned

This parameter enables thin provisioning for the new
virtual disk. To use thin provisioning, set this parameter to
TRUE. For no thin provisioning, set this parameter to
FALSE.

owner

The RAID controller module that owns the virtual disk.
Valid RAID controller module identifiers are 0 or 1, where
0 is the RAID controller module in slot 0, and 1 is the RAID
controller module in slot 1. If you do not specify an owner,

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