American Megatrends MAN-STOR-ITX27-CLI manual

2. Container and Volume Configuration

Next step is the AMI DVM container creation. This can be done by the following commands:

CLI>create –-type or -t container –-containername or -c container1 –-chunksize or –k 64

–-ldname or –l /dev/md0 volume <Enter>

Example: create –t container –c accounting –k 64 –l /dev/sdb volume (for a 3U)

This command creates a container named “accounting” from the LD /dev/sdb.

On a 1U, LDs are created with names of /dev/mdX, with X as 0, 1, and so on. Therefore the above operation would be accomplished by entering, for example:

Example: create –t container –c marketing –k 64 –l /dev/md1 volume

The next step is the creation of volumes.

A NAS volume can be created by the following command:

CLI>create –-type or –t volume –-containername or -c container1 –-volumename or -v nasvol0 –-volumesize or -z 1000 (in GB)

–-provisiontype or -p 0 (0 is thin-provisioned, 1 is exact) –-volumetype or -e 0 (type 0 is ROW)

–-voldialect or –f 1 (dialect 1 is NAS, 0 is iSCSI)

--chunksize or –k (8 or 64 for 8KB and 64KB chunk sized volume respectively.)

volume <Enter>

Example: create –t volume –c container1 –v volume1 –z 1000 –p 0 – e 0 –f 1 –k 64 volume

This command creates volume “nasvol0” in container “container1” with size of 1000GB, that is thin- provisioned, Redirect-On-Write, and of NAS type with chunk size as 64KB.

Volume size should be in GBs and currently supported volume type is 0 – ROW.

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