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

This example creates a new virtual disk using the create virtualDisk command with user-defined physical disks in the storage array.

Show "Create RAID 5 Virtual Disk 2 on existing Disk Group 2";
                                    
                                    //This command creates the disk group and the
                                    initial virtual disk on that group.
                                    
                                    //Note: For disk groups that use all available
                                    capacity, the last virtual disk on the group is
                                    created using all remaining capacity by omitting
                                    the capacity=virtualDisk creation parameter
                                    
                                    create virtualDisk raidLevel=5 userLabel="2"
                                    physicalDisks=[0,1 0,6 1,7 1,3 2,3 2,6] owner=1
                                    segmentSize=16 capacity=2GB;
                                    
                                    show "Setting additional attributes for virtual
                                    disk 7";
                                    //Configuration settings that cannot be set during
                                    virtual disk creation
                                    set virtualDisk["7"] mediaScanEnabled=false;
                                    set virtualDisk["7"] consistencyCheckEnabled=false;
                                    set virtualDisk["7"] modificationPriority=high;
                                 

The following syntax is the general form of the create virtualDisk command shown in the previous example:

create virtualDisk raidLevel=(0 | 1 | 5 | 6)
                                    userLabel="
                                    virtualDiskName" physicalDisks=
                                    (
                                    enclosureID0,slotID0... enclosureIDn,slotIDn)
                                    [capacity=
                                    virtualDiskCapacity | owner=(0 | 1) |
                                    segmentSize=
                                    segmentSizeValue]
                                    [enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE | FALSE)]