Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Guide

add storage


Description	Provisions disks into disk groups, according to rules defined by the storage-system manufacturer. In a new system, this command quickly provisions disks in enclosures so that you can proceed with creating and mapping volumes. In an existing system, this command quickly provisions unused disks in new and existing enclosures. If you specify the preview parameter, the command shows some or all of the following reference information, and not provision storage: Suggestions to consider before provisioning, if any A table of disk groups that can be added, if any A table of ADAPT disk groups that can be expanded, if any A table of unused disks, if any
Minimum role	manage
Syntax	add storage [enclosure enclosure-IDs] [preview]
Parameters	enclosure enclosure-IDs Optional. Limits provisioning to a specified enclosure. If this parameter is omitted, the command uses disks from all enclosures. preview Optional. Toggles between adding storage and displaying a possible storage configuration.
Examples	Add storage to the system. # add storage Add storage to a single enclosure. # add storage enclosure 3 Preview a storage configuration which could be added. # add storage preview
Basetypes	adapt-expand-preview disk-groups-preview spares-preview storage-preview unused-disks-preview
See also	add disk-group add spares create vdisk show disks show disk-groups show pools show vdisks