HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Reference Guide (T1610-96061, January 2014)

DescriptionOption
In case of volumes other than OPEN-V, more free space than the capacity that was
actually specified is required. For details, see the HP XP P9000 Provisioning for Open
Systems User Guide or Provisioning Guide.
When you specify "all" instead of digits to create an OPEN-V LDEV and no LDEV has
been created in the specified parity group* or the external volume group, the system
allocates all empty space for the LDEV. If the empty space is larger than the maximum
capacity of an LDEV, the system creates the LDEV with the maximum capacity and leaves
the rest of the space as an empty space.
*: "all" cannot be specified depending on the combination of the drive type and drive
level because of the LDEV control area allocation, and so on. In this case specify byte
or LBA.
Specifies capacity. Corrects the size as well as GUI for the specified capacity. The
capacity can be specified in bytes or blocks. When specifying byte, the unit is t/T
(terabyte), g/G (gigabyte), m/M (megabyte), or k/K (kilobyte).
-offset_capacity <size>
Specifies the size in cylinder unit. When specifying, the unit is t/T (teracylinder), g/G
(gigacylinder), m/M (megacylinder), or k/K (kilocylinder). Cylinder is applied if you do
not specify the unit.
-cylinder <size>
When an open-systems emulation type is specified, this option cannot be specified.
Specifies the Location (the starting point of the LDEV to be created in the parity
group/external volume group). If this specification is omitted, create a LDEV and close
up in the free space.
[-location <lba>]
Specifies the emulation type. For example:
• OPEN-V
If this specification is omitted, OPEN-V is specified.
[-emulation <emulation
type> ]
The values that can be specified for <emulation type> are:
• OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9, OPEN-E, OPEN-L, OPEN-V
• 3380-3, 3380-3A, 3380-3B, 3380-3C
• 3390-1, 3390-2, 3390-3, 3390-A, 3390-3A, 3390-3B, 3390-3C, 3390-3R, 3390-9,
3390-9A, 3390-9B, 3390-9C, 3390-L, 3390-LA, 3390-LB, 3390-LC, 3390-M,
3390-MA, 3390-MB, 3390-MC, 3390-V
• 6586-G, 6586-J, 6586-K, 6586-KA, 6586-KB, 6586-KC
• 6588-1, 6588-3, 6588-9, 6588-3A, 6588-3B, 6588-3C, 6588-9A, 6588-9B,
6588-9C, 6588-L, 6588-LA, 6588-LB, 6588-LC
Some emulation types cannot be specified depending on the emulation type.
CAUTION: You can specify 3390-3 or 3390-3R as the emulation type, but these are
unable to be mixed. You can specify the 3380 series or the 3390 series as the emulation
type for each parity group, but they are unable to be mixed for each 32 address boundary
because of the OS restriction. You can specify the 6588 series or the 6586 series as
the emulation type for each parity group, but they are unable to be mixed for each 32
address boundary because of the OS restriction.
Specifies the MP blade ID (0-7). If this specification is omitted, it is allocated automatically.[-mp_blade_id <mp#> ]
When you create virtual volumes by specifying the -pool_id <pool#> option, specify the
CLPR number. If you omit this option, the CLPR number to which the pool is allocated is
used.
[-clpr <clpr#> ]
Examples
Creating an LDEV: 100 of size 10GB in a parity group: 33-16.
Location in the parity group: automatic allocation, LDEV Emulation type: OPEN-V
# raidcom add ldev -parity_grp_id 33-16 -ldev_id 100 -capacity 10G
# raidcom add ldev -parity_grp_id 33-16 -ldev_id 110
-offset_capacity 10G -command_device y
raidcom add ldev 159