Dell PowerVault MD3000i User Manual

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Script Commands

diskGroup=

diskGroupNumber

) [newVolumeGroup=

VolumeGroupName

]

userLabel=”

virtualDiskName

” capacity=

virtualDiskCapacity

offset=

offsetValue

raidLevel=(0 | 1 | 5 | 6)

segmentSize=

segmentSizeValue

[owner=(0 | 1)

cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)]

Parameters

Parameter

Description

physicalDisk or physicalDisks Specifies the physical disks to assign to the virtual disk

that you want to create. Specify the tray ID and slot
ID for each physical disk that you assign to the virtual
disk. Tray ID values are 0 to 99. Slot ID values are 0
to 31. You must put brackets ([ ]) around the tray ID
value and the slot ID value.

newVolumeGroup

This parameter enables the user to specify a name for
a new volume group that is automatically created by
the RAID controller module.

userLabel

Name to give the new virtual disk. Enclose the new
virtual disk name in double quotation marks (" ").

capacity

Size of the virtual disk that you are adding to the
storage array. Size is defined in units of bytes.

offset

Number of blocks from the beginning of the disk
group to the beginning of the referenced virtual disk
(1 block is equal to 512 bytes).

raidLevel

RAID level of the disk group that contains the physical
disks. Valid values are 0, 1, 5, or 6.

segmentSize

Amount of data (in kilobytes) that the RAID
controller module writes on a single physical disk in a
virtual disk before writing data on the next physical
disk. Valid values are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512.
For information about the segmentSize parameter, see
"Using the Auto Configure Command" on page 53.

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