A.39 create PhysicalDisk

Creates a physical disk on a volume group.

Syntax

create PhysicalDisk size=value [ extraInfo=value ] shareable= { Yes | No } thinProvision= { Yes | No } userFriendlyName=value name=value [ description=value ] on VolumeGroup instance

Where instance is:

{ id=value | name=value }

Description

This command creates a physical disk on a volume group. Local storage and generic storage plug-ins are not supported with this command.

Options

The following table shows the available options for this command.

Option	Description
`size=value`	The size of the physical disk in GiB. The value can be from `1` to `2048`.
`extraInfo=value`
`shareable=` { `Yes` \| `No` }	Whether the physical disk is shareable. Shareable disks have read/write privileges in multiple virtual machines and should be used with caution.
`thinProvision=` { `Yes` \| `No` }	Whether to create a thin or non-thin physical disk.
`userFriendlyName=value`	A user friendly name to identify the disk.
`name=value`	A name to identify the physical disk.
`description=value`	Optional description for the physical disk. `value` is a maximum of 4,000 characters.
{ `id=value` \| `name=value` }	The instance of the object using either the `id` or `name` option, for example `name=MyVolumeGroup`.

Note

Any create command only creates a single instance of an object, and therefore only accepts a single object instance as an attribute. Providing more than one object of the same attribute type as a parameter always results in the last attribute value taking precedence.

Examples

Example A.53 Creating a physical disk on a volume group

OVM> create PhysicalDisk size=10 name=MyPhysicalDisk shareable=No \
  thinProvision=No userFriendlyName="My Disk" on VolumeGroup \
  id='Storage_Volume_Group @ 0004fb0000090000325a36dad3b3b7d8'