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Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

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Reinitialize Thin Virtual Disk

Description

This command re-initializes a thin virtual disk.
  • NOTE: Formatting a virtual disk starts a long-running operation that cannot be stopped.

Syntax

start virtualDisk [virtualDiskName] initialize [existingRepositoryLabel=existingRepositoryName] 
                                 [diskPool=diskPoolName capacity=capacityValue] [retainRepositoryMembers=(TRUE|FALSE)]

Parameters

Parameter Description
virtualDisk The name of the virtual disk for which you are starting the formatting. Enclose the virtual disk name in square brackets ([ ]). If the virtual disk name has special characters, you also must enclose the virtual disk name in double quotation marks (" ").
existingRepositoryLabel Causes the repository virtual disk to be replaced by the candidate virtual disk specified.
  • The value specified is an existing repository virtual disk user label. The virtual disk specified must be an unused repository virtual disk with the name in the proper form.
  • If the newly specified repository virtual disk is on a different disk pool, the thin virtual disk will change ownership to that pool.
  • The old repository virtual disk will be deleted by default.
diskPoolUserLabel Use this parameter to allocate a new repository virtual disk with the specified capacity.
retainRepositoryMember If this parameter is set to TRUE, the old repository is retained. By default, the old repository is deleted. This parameter is ignored if the existing repository is reused.

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