A.49 create VirtualDisk

Creates a virtual disk.

Syntax

create VirtualDisk size=value shareable= { Yes | No } sparse= { Yes | No } name=value [ description=value ] on Repository instance

Where instance is:

{ id=value | name=value }

Description

This command creates a virtual disk in a storage repository.

Options

The following table shows the available options for this command.

Option	Description
`size=value`	The size of the virtual disk in GiB. `value` can be an integer between `1` and `1000000`.
`shareable=` { `Yes` \| `No` }	Whether the virtual disk is shareable. Shareable disks have read/write privileges in multiple virtual machines and should be used with caution.
`sparse=` { `Yes` \| `No` }	Whether to create a sparse or non-sparse virtual disk.
`name=value`	A name to identify the virtual disk.
`description=value`	Optional description for the virtual 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=MyRepository`.

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.65 Creating a virtual disk in a storage repository

OVM> create VirtualDisk name=MyVMDisk size=10 sparse=Yes shareable=No on Repository \
  name=MyRepository