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July 10th, 2012 07:00

Creating DATA devices

create dev count=n,

size = n [MB | GB | CYL],

emulation=EmulationType,

config=DeviceConfig

[, attribute=

[in pool=PoolName]

[member_state= ]

(from document EMC® Solutions Enabler Symmetrix Array Controls CLI Version 7.4  ,page 80)

As per the above syntax given in SE Guide , i tried to create some DATA Devs  with followinf command.

symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "create dev count=10,size=18414,emulation=FBA,config=RAID-5,attribute=DATADEV;" preview -v

I ended up with receiving following error.

    Error occurred while Defining change number 1:

    Invalid data member count supplied in create dev request see SYMAPI log file for more details

The command worked by adding  data_member_count  option.

symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "create dev count=10,size=18414,emulation=FBA,config=RAID-5,attribute=DATADEV,data_member_count=3;" preview -v

Is that a documentation error at SE Guide?

And also the above command works with/without providing a diskgroup.Any idea about the default diskgroup from where the devices will be created ,if we didn't provide the diskgroup information?

Thanks in advance

Raj

  • Quincy561

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    Posted July 10th, 2012 12:00

    Be careful when creating DATA devices to make sure every disk in the pool has the same amount of capacity or the workload won't be even over the drives.