Citrix Systems 5.6 manual PIF commands, Pbd-create, Pbd-destroy, Pbd-plug, Pbd-unplug

Parameter Name	Description	Type
sr-uuid	the storage repository that the PBD	read only
	points to
device-config	additional configuration information that	read only map parameter
	is provided to the SR-backend-driver of a
	host
currently-attached	True if the SR is currently attached on	read only
	this host, False otherwise
host-uuid	UUID of the physical machine on which	read only
	the PBD is available
host	The host field is deprecated. Use	read only
	host_uuid instead.
other-config	Additional configuration information.	read/write map parameter

pbd-create

pbd-createhost-uuid=<uuid_of_host>sr-uuid=<uuid_of_sr>[device-config:key=<corresponding_value>...]

Create a new PBD on a XenServer host. The read-only device-configparameter can only be set on creation.

To add a mapping of 'path' -> '/tmp', the command line should contain the argument device-

config:path=/tmp

For a full list of supported device-config key/value pairs on each SR type see Storage.

pbd-destroy

pbd-destroy uuid=<uuid_of_pbd>

Destroy the specified PBD.

pbd-plug

pbd-pluguuid=<uuid_of_pbd>

Attempts to plug in the PBD to the XenServer host. If this succeeds, the referenced SR (and the VDIs contained within) should then become visible to the XenServer host.

pbd-unplug

pbd-unplug uuid=<uuid_of_pbd>

Attempt to unplug the PBD from the XenServer host.

PIF commands

Commands for working with PIFs (objects representing the physical network interfaces).

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