Reference Guide

175 Lifecycle Controller Web Services Interface Guide for Linux
SpanDepth: If not specified, default is single span which is used for RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6. Raid 10, 50
and 60 require a spandepth of at least 2.
SpanLength: Number of Physical Disk Drives to be used per span. Minimum requirements for given
RAID Level must be met.
StripeSize:
8KB = 16
16KB = 32
32KB = 64
64KB = 128
128KB = 256
256KB = 512 512KB =
1024 1MB = 2048 ReadPolicy:
No Read Ahead = 16
Read Ahead = 32
Adaptive Read Ahead = 64
WritePolicy:
Write Through = 1
Write Back = 2
Write Back Force = 4
DiskCachePolicy:
Enabled = 512
Disabled = 1024
VirtualDiskName: Name of the virtual disk (1-15 character range)
StartingLBA: Starting logical block address of virtual disks in blocks. If
0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, starting LBA is calculated programmatically.
The value can be in hexadecimal or decimal format.
0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
18446744073709551615
EXAMPLE:
wsman invoke -a CreateVirtualDisk
http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_RAIDService?
SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem,CreationClassName=DCIM_RAIDService
,SystemName=DCIM:ComputerSystem,Name=DCIM:RAIDService
-h $IPADDRESS -V -v -c dummy.cert -P 443
-u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD
-J CreateSlicedVirtualDisk.xml -j utf-8 -y basic
The input file CreateSlicedVirtualDisk.xml is shown below:
<p:CreateVirtualDisk_INPUT
xmlns:p="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_RAIDS
ervice”>
<p:Target>RAID.Integrated.1-1</p:Target>
<p:PDArray>Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure.Internal.0-0:RAID.Integrated.1-1</p:PDArray
>
<p:PDArray>Disk.Bay.1:Enclosure.Internal.0-0:RAID.Integrated.1-1</p:PDArray
>