Dell 32XX, 34XX, 38XX, 36XX manual Create Disk Group, PhysicalDisks, DriveMediaType

A host group is an optional topological element that you can define if you want to designate a collection of hosts that share access to the same virtual disks. The host group is a logical entity. Define a host group only if you have two or more hosts that share access to the same virtual disks.

Create Disk Group

Description

This command creates either a free-capacity disk group or a disk group with one virtual disk when you enter a set of assigned physical disks.

Syntax

create diskGroup

physicalDisks=(enclosureID1,drawerID1,slotID1 enclosureID2,slotID2... enclosureIDn,drawerIDn,slotIDn) raidLevel=(0 1 5 6) userLabel=”diskGroupName”

[driveMediaType=(HDD SSD unknown allMedia) capacity=virtualDiskCapacity

owner=(0 1) cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE FALSE) segmentSize=segmentSizeValue usageHint=(fileSystem dataBase multiMedia) enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE FALSE) drawerLossProtect=(TRUE FALSE) securityType=(none capable enabled)] [dataAssurance=(none capable enabled)]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
physicalDisks	The physical disks that you want to assign to the disk group that
	you want to create. Specify the enclosure ID value and the slot ID
	value for each physical disk that you assign to the disk group.
	Enclosure ID values are 0 to 99. Drawer ID values are 0 to 4. Slot
	ID values are 0 to 31. Enclose the enclosure ID values and the
	slot ID values in parentheses.
raidLevel	The RAID level of the disk group that contains the virtual disk.
	Valid values are 0, 1, 5, or 6.
userLabel	The alphanumeric identifier (including - and _) that you want to
	give the new disk group. Enclose the disk group identifier in
	double quotation marks (“ ”).
driveMediaType	The type of physical disk media that you want to use for the disk
	group. Valid physical disk media consists of:
	• HDD — Use this option when you have hard disk drives in the
	expansion enclosure.
	• SSD — Use this option when you have solid state physical
	disks in the expansion enclosure.
	• unknown —Use if you are not sure what types of physical disk
	media are in the expansion enclosure.

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