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Status Submitted
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 30, 2024

PowerVC add support for mkvolume in place of mkvdisk

mkvdisk does not fully support iogroup placement 

 


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mkvolume

Use the mkvolume command to create an empty volume from existing storage pools. You can use this command for high availability configurations that include HyperSwap, but it can also be used for volumes that are not high availability.

8:1

so avoid that the storage assing wrong iogrp it is better inform the correct pool and correct io group for this pool, why reason i share this information becase there are two sites in this configuration each site has two iogrp so it is better inform correct pool and her correct iogrp, it is important to avoid performance issues in futureExample: mkvolume -compressed  -name anything - pool 1: 0 -size (value) -unit (unit size i.e GB etc) -iogrp 1:0

Idea priority Medium