Reference Guide

• -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
hot-spare.
• -type { ghs | dhs} — Assigns a global or dedicated hot-
spare.
• -vdkey:<VD FQDD> — Assigns the dedicated hot-spare to
the specified virtual disk. This option is required for dedicated
hot-spare.
• -state <start|stop> — start value will start a patrol
read operation.
stop value will stop a running patrol read
operation.
NOTE: To start the operation, the
Controller.PatrolReadMode must be in Manual
mode.
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