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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide

Create a pool using drives with specific characteristics

This example applies to hybrid Flash arrays, which only support traditional pools.

Retrieve the list of storage profiles

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /stor/config/profile -configurable show
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

1:    ID                             = profile_22
      Description                    = SAS RAID5
      Drive type                     = SAS
      RAID level                     = 5
      Maximum capacity               = 4611148087296 (4.1T)
      Stripe length                  = Maximum capacity
      Disk group                     = dg_16
      Maximum drives to configure    = 5
      Maximum capacity to configure  = 1884243623936 (1.7T)

2:    ID                             = profile_30
      Description                    = SAS RAID10 (1+1)
      Drive type                     = SAS
      RAID level                     = 10
      Maximum capacity               = 9749818597376 (8.8T)
      Stripe length                  = 2
      Disk group                     = dg_13, dg_15
      Maximum drives to configure    = 10, 10
      Maximum capacity to configure  = 1247522127872 (1.1T), 2954304921600 (2.6T)

3:    ID                             = profile_31
      Description                    = SAS RAID10 (2+2)
      Drive type                     = SAS
      RAID level                     = 10
      Maximum capacity               = 9749818597376 (8.8T)
      Stripe length                  = 4
      Disk group                     = dg_13, dg_15
      Maximum drives to configure    = 8, 8
      Maximum capacity to configure  = 2363443937280 (2.1T), 952103075840 (886.7G)

Configure a new pool

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /stor/config/pool create -name MyPool -description "My custom pool" -storProfile profile_22 -diskGroup dg_16 -drivesNumber 5
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

ID = GP_4
Operation completed successfully.

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