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American Megatrends MAN-STOR-ITX27-CLI User Manual

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StorTrends® iTX Software CLI (Command Line Interface) (Version 2.7) User’s Guide

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2. Container and Volume Configuration

Next step is the AMI DVM container creation. This can be done by the following commands:

CLI>create –-type or -t container

–-containername or -c container1
–-chunksize or –k 64
–-ldname or –l /dev/md0
volume

Example: create –t container –c accounting –k 64 –l
/dev/sdb volume (for a 3U)


This command creates a container named “accounting” from the LD /dev/sdb.

On a 1U, LDs are created with names of /dev/mdX, with X as 0, 1, and so on. Therefore the above operation
would be accomplished by entering, for example:

Example: create –t container –c marketing –k 64 –l
/dev/md1 volume


The next step is the creation of volumes.

A NAS volume can be created by the following command:

CLI>create –-type or –t volume

–-containername or -c container1
–-volumename or -v nasvol0
–-volumesize or -z 1000 (in GB)
–-provisiontype or -p 0 (0 is thin-provisioned, 1 is exact)
–-volumetype or -e 0 (type 0 is ROW)
–-voldialect or –f 1 (dialect 1 is NAS, 0 is iSCSI)
--chunksize or –k (8 or 64 for 8KB and 64KB chunk sized volume

respectively.)

volume

Example: create –t volume –c container1 –v volume1 –z 1000 –p 0 –
e 0 –f 1 –k 64 volume


This command creates volume “nasvol0” in container “container1” with size of 1000GB, that is thin-
provisioned, Redirect-On-Write, and of NAS type with chunk size as 64KB.

Volume size should be in GBs and currently supported volume type is 0 – ROW.