omconfig Create Virtual Disk

The online help provides additional information about creating virtual disks.

The omconfig syntax for creating a virtual disk has several parameters. You must specify the following parameters:

Controller (controller=id)

RAID level (raid=<c r0 r1 r1c r5 r10 r50>)

Size (size=<number max min>)

Physical disk is specified as either: pdisk=connector:enclosureID:portID or

pdisk=connector:targetID

Storage Management supplies default values for any of the other parameters that you do not specify.

Complete Syntax

omconfig storage controller action=createvdisk controller=id raid=<c r0 r1 r1c r5 r10 r50> size=<number max min> pdisk=<PDISKID> [stripesize=< 2kb 4kb 8kb 16kb 32kb 64kb 128kb>] [cachepolicy=<d c>] [readpolicy=<ra nra ara rc nrc>] [writepolicy=<wb wt wc nwc fwb>] [name=<string>] [spanlength=<n>]

Parameter Specification for Create and Reconfigure Virtual Disk

The following sections indicate how to specify the omconfig storage controller action=createvdisk parameters.

controller=id Parameter (Required)

raid=<c r0 r1 r1c r5 r10 r50> Parameter (Required) size=<number max min> Parameter (Required) pdisk=<connector:targetID,connector:targetID,.....> Parameter (Required)

[stripesize=< 2kb 4kb 8kb 16kb 32kb 64kb 128kb>] Parameter (Optional) [cachepolicy=<d c>] Parameter (Optional)

[readpolicy=<ra nra ara rc nrc>] Parameter (Optional) [writepolicy=<wb wt wc nwc fwb>] Parameter (Optional) [name=<string>] Parameter (Optional)

[spanlength=<n>] Parameter (Optional)

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