Citrix Systems 6 manual PIF Commands, Pbd-create, Pbd-destroy, Pbd-plug, Pbd-unplug

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

The PIF objects can be listed with the standard object listing command (xe pif-list), and the parameters manipulated with the standard parameter commands. See the section called “Low-level Parameter Commands” for details.

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