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GBTruncate

Truncates the drive to the nearest 1-billion byte

 

boundary.

10GBTruncate

Truncates the drive to the nearest 10-billion byte

 

boundary.

GrpRounding

Truncates the drive using an intelligent algorithm. Allows

 

the maximum amount of usable space.

TableRounding

Truncates the drive using a pre-defined coercion table.

smart=

Enables or disables polling drive SMART status.

enable

 

disable

 

smartpollinginterval=

Sets the time interval in number of minutes to poll the

 

drive SMART status.

1..1440

 

cacheflushinterval=

Sets the time interval in seconds to flush the controller

 

writeback cache.

1..12

 

migrationstorage=

Sets location to store the migration watermark.

ddf

Uses the DDF area on the physical drives of the disk

 

array.

nvram

Uses the NVRAM on the controller.

lunaffinity=

Subsystems only. Enables or disables LUN affinity,

 

allowing LD access only to certain controller. For

 

subsystems with dual controllers.

enable

 

disable

 

pollinterval=

Sets interval in seconds to poll enclosure SEP

 

information.

15..255

 

lunmapping=

Subsystems only. Chooses WWN based or Slot based

 

LUN mapping method.

wwn

 

slot

 

adaptivewbcache=

Enables or disables adaptive writeback cache.

enable

Writeback logical drives will change the write policy

 

based on the availability of protection. If BBU or UPS is

 

available, the write policy is retained as Writeback,

 

otherwise the policy is switched to Writethru.

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