Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 49)

Configuring a Storage Array
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NOTE:
The capacity, owner, segmentSize, and enclosureLossProtect parameters
are optional. You can use one or all of the optional parameters as needed to help
define your configuration. You do not, however, need to use any optional
parameters.
The userLabel parameter is the name to give to the virtual disk. The virtual
disk name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and
underscores. The maximum length of the virtual disk name is 30 characters.
Spaces are not allowed. You must put quotation marks (" ") around the virtual
disk name.
The physicalDisks parameter is a list of the physical disks that you want to use
for the disk group. Enter the enclosure ID and slot ID of each physical disk
that you want to use. Put parentheses around the list. Separate the enclosure
ID and slot ID of a physical disk by a comma. Separate each enclosure ID and
slot ID pair by a space. For example:
(0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3 0,4)
The capacity parameter defines the size of the virtual disk. You do not have to
assign the entire capacity of the physical disks to the virtual disk. You can later
assign any unused space to another virtual disk.
The owner parameter defines the RAID controller module to which you want
to assign the virtual disk. If you do not specify a RAID controller module, the
RAID controller module firmware determines the owner of the virtual disk.
The segmentSize parameter is the same as described for the autoConfigure
storageArray command. See "Using the Auto Configure Command" on
page 53.
The enclosureLossProtect parameter turns on or turns off enclosure loss
protection for the disk group. (For a description of how enclosure loss
protection works, see "Enclosure Loss Protection" on page 52.)
Example of Creating Virtual Disks with User-Assigned Physical Disks
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "create virtualDisk
physicalDisks=(0,0 0,1 0,2) raidLevel=5 userLabel=
\"Engineering_1\" capacity=20 GB owner=0;"
NOTE:
The capacity parameter returns an error if you specify a value greater than
or equal to 10 without a space separating the numeric value and its unit of measure.
(For example,
10GB will return an error, but 10 GB will not return an error).