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TARGET: This parameter is the FQDD of the DCIM_ControllerView (Section 16.7)
PDArray: This parameter is the list of physical disk drives FQDDs that will be used to create a
virtual Disk.
VDPropNameArray: This parameter is the list of property names that will be used to create a
virtual disk. The parameter list contains the following names:
Size, RAIDLevel, SpanDepth, SpanLength, StripeSize, ReadPolicy, WritePolicy,
DiskCachePolicy, VirtualDiskName, Initialize
VDPropValueArray: This parameter is the list of property values that will be used to create a
virtual Disk. The property values are for the property names listed under VDPropNameArray .
Size: Size of the virtual disk specified in MB. If not specified, default will use full size of physical
disks selected.
RAIDLevel:
RAID 0 = 2
RAID 1 = 4
RAID 5 = 64
RAID 6 = 128
RAID 10 = 2048
RAID 50 = 8192
RAID 60 = 16384
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