Carve-virtual-drive

Managing Network Adapters

Create Virtual Drive from an Existing Drive Group

Write Policy will be set to Write Back with Bad BBU (2 and 'write-policy\:2')

New virtual drive will have the following characteristics: - Spans: '[6.7]'

- RAID level: '1'

- Name: 'test_v_drive'

- Size: 1000 MB

- Write Policy: Write Back with Bad BBU

OK? (y or n)--> y
Server /chassis/storageadapter # show virtual-drive				Size	RAID Level
Virtual Drive Health		Status	Name
Boot Drive	-------------- -------------------- ----------------			---------- ----------
-------------
----------	Good	Optimal		150528 MB	RAID 0
0
false	Good	Optimal		20480 MB	RAID 0
1
true	Good	Optimal		114140 MB	RAID 0
2
false	Good	Optimal	test_v_drive	1000 MB	RAID 1
3
false	Good	Optimal	new_from_test	500 MB	RAID 1
4
false

Server /chassis/storageadapter #

Create Virtual Drive from an Existing Drive Group

	Command or Action	Purpose
Step 1	Server# scope chassis	Enters the chassis command mode.
Step 2	Server /chassis # scope	Enters command mode for an installed storage card.
	storageadapter slot
Step 3	Server /chassis/storageadapter #	At this point, you are prompted to enter information
	carve-virtual-drive	corresponding to the virtual drives to be used, and the size
		and the write policy for the new virtual drive. Enter the
		appropriate information at each prompt.
		When you have finished specifying the virtual drive
		information, you are prompted to confirm that the
		information is correct. Enter y (yes) to confirm, or n (no)
		to cancel the operation.
Step 4	Server /chassis/storageadapter #	Displays the existing virtual drives.
	show virtual-drive

This example shows how to carve a new virtual drive out of unused space in an existing RAID 1 drive group:

Server# scope chassis

Server /chassis # scope storageadapter SLOT-3

	Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Integrated Management Controller CLI Configuration Guide, Release 1.5
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