NOTE: Use one or all of the optional parameters as needed to define your configuration. It is not necessary to use any optional parameters.

The following example is a command in which software assigns the physical disks:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "create snapshotVirtualDisk sourceVirtualDisk= \"Mars_Spirit_4\" repositoryDiskGroup=2 freeCapacityArea=2;"

The command in this example creates a new snapshot repository virtual disk in disk group 2. The source virtual disk is Mars_Spirit_4. The size of the snapshot repository is 4 GB. This command also takes a snapshot of the source virtual disk, which starts the copy-on-write operation.

Define the capacity of a snapshot repository virtual disk as any percentage of the size of the source virtual disk. A value of 20 percent is an optimum number. In the previous example, the size of the snapshot repository is set to 4 GB. The underlying assumption is that the source virtual disk size is 20 GB (0.2 x 20 GB = 4 GB).

The following example is the script file version of the command:

create snapshotVirtualDisk sourceVirtualDisk= "Mars_Spirit_4" repositoryDiskGroup=2 freeCapacityArea=2;

Creating A Snapshot Virtual Disk By Specifying A Number Of Physical Disks

With this version of the create snapshotVirtualDisk command, you must specify the number of physical disks and the RAID level for the snapshot repository virtual disk. This version of the create snapshotVirtualDisk command creates a new disk group. You must have physical disks in the storage array that are not assigned to a disk group for this command to work:

create snapshotVirtualDisk sourceVirtualDisk=

"sourceVirtualDiskName" [repositoryRAIDLevel=(0 1 5 6) repositoryPhysicalDiskCount= numberOfPhysicalDisks physicalDiskType=(SAS) userLabel="snapshotVirtualDiskName" warningThresholdPercent=percentValue repositoryPercentOfSource=percentValue repositoryUserLabel="repositoryName" repositoryFullPolicy=(failSourceWrites failSnapShot)] [enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE FALSE)]

NOTE: Use one or all optional parameters as needed to define your configuration. It is not necessary to use any optional parameters.

The following example is a command in which users specify the number of physical disks:

client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "create snapshotVirtualDisk sourceVirtualDisk= \"Mars_Spirit_4\" repositoryRAIDLevel=5 repositoryPhysicalDiskCount=3;"

The command in this example creates a new snapshot repository virtual disk that consists of three physical disks. The three physical disks comprise a new disk group with a RAID level of 5. This command also takes a snapshot of the source virtual disk, which starts the copy-on-write operation.

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