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

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)]
                                 

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.

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

create snapshotVirtualDisk sourceVirtualDisk=
                                    "Mars_Spirit_4" repositoryRAIDLevel=5
                                    repositoryPhysicalDiskCount=3;