Dell PowerVault User Manual

Parameter Description
should be the default values. The default values are
based on the typical I/O usage pattern of the
application that is using the virtual disk. Valid values
are fileSystem, dataBase, or multiMedia.
dssPreAllocate
The setting to make sure that reserve capacity is
allocated for future segment size increases. The
default value is TRUE.
securityType
The setting to specify the security level when
creating the disk groups and all associated virtual
disks.
• none—The disk group and virtual disks are not
secure.
• capable—The disk group and virtual disks are
capable of having security set, but security has
not been enabled.
• enabled—The disk group and virtual disks have
security enabled.
For information about securityType, see
Security Type.
Create RAID Virtual Disk On A Disk Pool
Description
This command creates a new RAID virtual disk on an existing disk pool.
Syntax
create virtualDisk
diskPool="diskPoolName"
userLabel="virtual diskName"
capacity=
virtualDiskCapacity[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes]|
[thinProvisioned=(TRUE | FALSE)] |
[owner=(0|1) ] |
[mapping=(none|default) ] |
[dataAssurance=(none|enabled) ] |
[( existingRepositoryLabel=
existingRepositoryName |
newRepositoryCapacity=newRepositoryCapacityValue [KB | MB | GB | TB | Bytes]) |
[repositoryMaxCapacity=repositoryMaxCapacityValue[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes] ] |
[warningThresholdPercent=warningThresholdPercentValue ] |
[repositoryExpansionPolicy=(automatic|manual) ] |
[cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)] |
[segmentSize=segmentSizeValue] |
[usageHint=(fileSystem | dataBase | multiMedia)]
Parameters
Parameter Description
capacity
The size of the virtual disk that you are creating.
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Dell PowerVault Specifications

General

RAID Levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
RAID Support	Yes
Drive Type	SAS, SSD
Interface	SAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI
Category	Storage
Connectivity	Ethernet, Fibre Channel
Scalability	Yes
Operating System Compatibility	Windows, Linux, VMware
Management Software	PowerVault Manager, OpenManage