Reference Guide

Input
• -o — Specifies the optimized version.
• -p — Specifies the property name.
• --refkey — Specifies the controller or enclosure FQDDs.
• -rl — Sets the storage level.
– r0 — storage 0-Striping
– r1 — storage 1-Mirroring
– r5 — storage 5-Striping with Parity
– r6 — storage 6-Striping with Extra Parity
– r10 — storage 10-Spanned Striping with Mirroring
– r50 — storage 50-Spanned Striping with Parity
– r60 — storage 60-Spanned Striping with Extra Parity
• -wp{wt|wb|wbf} — Sets the write policy to Write Through, Write Back, or Write Back Force
• -rp {nra|ra|ara} — Sets the read policy to No Read Ahead, Read Ahead, Adaptive Read Ahead
• -ss — Specifies the stripe size to use.
• -pdkey:<PD FQDD list> — Specifies the physical disk drive to use in the virtual disk.
• -dcp — Sets the Disk Cache Policy in the Virtual Disk.
– enabled — Allows the virtual disk to use the cache.
– disabled — Does not allow the virtual disk to use the cache.
– default — Uses the default cache policy. For SAS drives, use the disabled option and for SATA
drives, use the
enabled option by default.
• -name <VD name> — Specifies the name of the virtual disk.
• -size <VD size> — Specifies the size of each virtual disk.
– b — Specifies the size in bytes
– k — Specifies the size in kilobytes
– m — Specifies the size in megabytes
– g — Specifies the size in gigabytes
– t — Specifies the size in terabytes
• -sc — Number of spans in a virtual disk (required for multi-span RAID level).
NOTE:
– For PERC9, if the value of controller.SupportRAID10UnevenSpans is supported, you
can enter only
0 for this option while creating RAID level 10. The created RAID10 virtual disk will
display the spandepth as 1 (default).
– For other controllers:
* The default value for multi-span RAID levels is 2 and for basic RAID level is 1.
* For hybrid RAID levels such as RAID10, RAID50, and RAID60, this option is mandatory.
* The value for-sc option can be 0 only for RAID10.
• -T10PIEnable — Creates a virtual disk with protection information.
• -key <Key id> — Specifies the key id.
• -passwd <passphrase> — Specifies the passphrase.
• -newpasswd <passphrase> — Specifies the new passphrase.
• -assign {yes | no} — Assigns or unassigns the disk as a hotspare.
• -type { ghs | dhs} — Assigns a global or dedicated hotspare.
• -vdkey:<VD FQDD> — Assigns the dedicated hotspare to the specified virtual disk. This option is
required for dedicated hotspare.
• -state <start|stop> — start value starts a patrol read operation. stop value stops a running
patrol read operation.
NOTE: To start the operation, the Controller.PatrolReadMode must be in Manual mode.
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