Dell PowerVault MD3000i Command Line Interface Guide - Page 51

Example of Creating Virtual Disks with Software-Assigned Physical Disks client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "create virtualDisk physicalDiskCount=3 raidLevel=5 userLabel= \"Engineering_1"\ capacity=20 GB owner=0 segmentSize=64;" The command in this example creates the same virtual disk as the previous create virtualDisk command, however, in this case the user does not know which physical disks are assigned to this disk group. Creating Virtual Disks in an Existing Disk Group To add a new virtual disk to an existing disk group, use the following command: create virtualDisk DiskGroup=diskGroupNumber userLabel="virtualDiskName" [freeCapacityArea= freeCapacityIndexNumber | capacity= virtualDiskCapacity | owner=(0 | 1) | segmentSize= segmentSizeValue] NOTE: The freeCapacityArea, capacity, owner, and segmentSize parameters are optional. You can use one or all optional parameters as needed to help define your configuration, though you do not need to use any of them. The diskGroup parameter is the number of the disk group in which you want to create a new virtual disk. If you do not know the disk group numbers on the storage array, you can use the show allVirtualDisks summary command. This command displays a list of the virtual disks and the disk groups to which the virtual disks belong. The userLabel parameter is the name you want to give to the virtual disk. The virtual disk name can be any combination of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. The maximum length of the virtual disk name is 30 characters. You must enclose the virtual disk name with quotation marks (" "). The freeCapacityArea parameter defines the free capacity area to use for the virtual disk. If a disk group has several free capacity areas, you can use this parameter to identify which free capacity area to use for virtual disk creation. You do not have to assign the entire capacity of the physical disks to the virtual disk. Assign any unused space to another virtual disk at another time. Configuring a Storage Array 51