mkmetadatavdisk

Use the mkmetadatavdisk command to create one metadata volume (owner type is host_integration_metadata) from a storage pool. You can also export one block device or file system (that is based on this volume) in the configuration node.

Syntax

mkmetadatavdisk -mdiskgrp { mdiskgrp_id | mdiskgrp_name }

Parameters

-mdiskgrpmdiskgrp_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.

Note: You cannot specify a data reduction pool with this command.

An invocation example

mkmetadatavdisk -mdiskgrp pool_a

The resulting output:

Virtual Disk, id [2], successfully created