HP NetRAID-4M Controller - Manual (Page 175)

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Working with Multi-level Containers
■ Stripe set of mirror set creation in a NetWare environment
■ Stripe set of mirror set creation in a UNIX environment
■ Some tasks to perform after creating a stripe set of mirror sets
The following sections discuss each of these topics.
Understanding the Stripe Set of Mirror Sets Attributes You can Specify
You use the container create mstripe command to create a
stripe set of mirror sets. Before creating a stripe set of mirror sets,
consider the following attributes you can specify:
■ stripe size
■ container label
Specifying Stripe Size When Creating a Stripe Set of Mirror Sets
The stripe size attribute indicates the stripe size for a container.
Stripe size is the amount of data written to a partition before the I/O
data stream switches to the next partition in the stripe. The stripe
size can be 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, or 64 KB. You need to determine the
stripe size that is most suitable for your environment. Note that you
can use the
container reconfigure command at a later time to
change the stripe size. See the container reconfigure
command in chapter Chapter 9, Modifying Containers, for a
description of the
container reconfigure command. You
display the stripe size of a stripe set of mirror sets using the
container list command. See Understanding How to Create a
Stripe Set of Mirror Sets for information on the container list
command.
In the following example, the container create mstripe
command with the /stripe switch creates a stripe set of mirror sets
with a stripe size of 64 KB (kilobytes).
HPN0> container create mstripe /stripe=64K 0 1
Executing: container create mstripe /stripe_size=65,536 0 1
Container 0 created
Specifying a Label for a Stripe Set of Mirror Sets
The container label attribute identifies a name assigned to a
container. Note that this label is not the label that displays in
Windows Explorer and Disk Administrator. You can specify a label