Dell PowerVault MD3260i - Manual (Page 382)

The first line of text is the show string command. This command displays text bounded by quotation marks (" ") on a
monitor screen when the script file runs. In this example, the text Create RAID 5 Virtual Disk 7 on existing Disk Group 1
serves as a title describing the expected results of running this script file.
The line beginning //Create is a comment explaining that the purpose of this script file is to create a new virtual disk by
using the create virtualDisk command on an existing disk group.
The line beginning //Note: is a comment in the script file explaining that the size of the last virtual disk created uses all of
the available capacity because the
capacity parameter is not used.
The command in this example creates a new virtual disk in disk group 1. The virtual disk has a redundant array of
independent disks (RAID) level of 5. The virtual disk name (user label) is 7. (Note the quotation marks around the 7. The
quotation marks indicate that the information in the marks is a label.) The new virtual disk is assigned to the RAID
controller module in slot 0 in the RAID enclosure. The segment size is set to 16.
The following syntax is the general form of the command:
create virtualDisk diskGroup=diskGroupNumber
userLabel="virtualDiskName" [freeCapacityArea=
freeCapacityIndexNumber] [capacity=
virtualDiskCapacity | owner=(0 | 1) | segmentSize=
segmentSizeValue]
[enclosureLossProtect=(TRUE | FALSE)]
The general form of the command shows the optional parameters in a different sequence than the optional parameters
in the example. You can enter optional parameters in any sequence. You must enter the required parameters in the
sequence shown in the command descriptions.
The line show "Setting additional attributes for virtual disk 7" is another example of using the show string command.
This command is placed here to tell you that the create virtualDisk command ran successfully. In addition,
properties that could not be set by the create virtualDisk command are now set.
The set virtualDisk command parameters are shown on separate lines. You do not need to use separate lines for
each parameter. You can enter more than one parameter with the set virtualDisk command by leaving a space
between the parameters.
By using separate lines, however, you can more clearly see what parameters you are setting and the values to which
you are setting the parameters. Blocking the parameters in this manner makes it easier to edit the file or copy specific
parameter settings for use in another script file.
Configuration Script Example 2
This example creates a new virtual disk using the create virtualDisk command with user-defined physical disks
in the storage array.
Show "Create RAID 5 Virtual Disk 2 on existing Disk Group 2";
//This command creates the disk group and the
initial virtual disk on that group.
//Note: For disk groups that use all available
capacity, the last virtual disk on the group is
created using all remaining capacity by omitting
the capacity=virtualDisk creation parameter
create virtualDisk raidLevel=5 userLabel="2"
physicalDisks=[0,1 0,6 1,7 1,3 2,3 2,6] owner=1
segmentSize=16 capacity=2GB;
show "Setting additional attributes for virtual
disk 7";
//Configuration settings that cannot be set during
virtual disk creation
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