Users Guide

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Does my controller support this feature? See "Supported Features."
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Before creating a virtual disk, you should be familiar with the information in "Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks."
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The omconfig syntax for creating a virtual disk has several parameters. You must specify the following parameters:
l Controller (controller=id)
l RAID level (raid=<c| r0| r1| r5| r6 | r10| r50 | r60>)
l Size (size=<number | max | min>)
l Physical disk is specified as either:
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pdisk=connector:enclosureID:portID
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or
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pdisk=connector:targetID
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See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter" and "Multiple Targets" for more information on specifying physical disks.
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The omconfig command supplies default values for any of the other parameters that you do not specify.
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Complete Syntax
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omconfig storage controller action=createvdisk controller=id raid=<c| r0| r1 | r5| r6 | r10| r50 | r60> size=<number | max | min>
pdisk=<PDISKID> [stripesize=< 2kb| 4kb| 8kb| 16kb| 32kb| 64kb| 128kb>] [cachepolicy=<d | c>] [diskcachepolicy=<d | e>] [readpolicy=<ra | nra |
ara | rc| nrc>] [writepolicy= <wb| wt| wc| nwc | fwb>] [name=<string>] [spanlength= <n>]
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Parameter Specification for Create and Reconfigure Virtual Disk
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The following sections indicate how to specify the omconfig storage controller action=createvdisk parameters.
l "controller=id Parameter (Required)"
l "raid=<c| r0 | r1| r5 | r6 | r10 | r50 | r60> Parameter (Required)"
l "size=<number | max | min> Parameter (Required)"
l "pdisk=<PDISKID> (Required)"
l "[stripesize=< 2kb| 4kb| 8kb| 16kb| 32kb| 64kb| 128kb>] Parameter (Optional)"
l "[cachepolicy=<d | c>] Parameter (Optional)"
l "[readpolicy=<ra | nra | ara | rc | nrc>] Parameter (Optional)"
l "[writepolicy=<wb | wt | wc | nwc | fwb>] Parameter (Optional)"
l "[name=<string>] Parameter (Optional)"
l "[spanlength=<n>] Parameter (Required for RAID 50 and RAID 60 and optional for RAID 10)"
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controller=id Parameter (Required)
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NOTE: For RAID 10 on SAS controllers with firmware version 6.1 and later, spanlength is an optional parameter (default=2). spanlength should be an
even number and should be lesser than or equal to half the number of physical disks specified in size.