mkmetadatavdisk
Use the mkmetadatavdisk command to create one metadata volume for use with VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols).
Syntax
Parameters
- -mdiskgrp mdiskgrp_id | mdiskgrp_name
- (Required) Assigns one or multiple storage pools for use in creating a metadata volume. The value must be a numeric value for mdiskgrp_id and an alphanumeric string for mdiskgrp_name.
Description
This command creates one metadata volume from a storage pool.
Restriction: You cannot specify a data reduction
pool with this command.
An invocation example
mkmetadatavdisk -mdiskgrp pool_aThe resulting output:
Virtual Disk, id [2], successfully created