Chapter 16. Configuring Physical Disks

Table of Contents

Listing the Physical Disks (pdisk list)
Showing Physical Disk Details (pdisk show)
Discovering a Physical Disk Name or UUID (pdisk lookup)

This chapter describes the commands that you use to configure the physical disks for the NearStore VTL appliance. It consists of the following sections:

the section called “Listing the Physical Disks (pdisk list)”
the section called “Showing Physical Disk Details (pdisk show)”
the section called “Discovering a Physical Disk Name or UUID (pdisk lookup)”

Note

The physical disk commands refer to available disks. A disk is available to the VTL if it is not a spare, is not in the maintenance pool, and does not belong to a RAID group.

Listing the Physical Disks (pdisk list)

SYNOPSIS

pdisk list [pdisk_id]

ARGUMENTS

pdisk_id

Physical disk identifier (UUID or serial number)

RESULT

A successful pdisk list command displays a list of physical disks available at the back end. If pdisk_id is invalid, pdisk list returns a non-zero exit status and relevant error message.


Chapter 15. Showing the Appliance Event Log		Showing Physical Disk Details (pdisk show)