Show Virtual Disk

For the virtual disks in a storage array, this command returns:

• Number of virtual disks
• Name
• Status
• Capacity
• RAID level
• Disk group where the virtual disk is located
• Details
  • Virtual Disk ID
  • Subsystem ID
  • Physical disk type (Fibre Channel, SATA, SAS, PATA)
  • Enclosure loss protection
  • Preferred owner
  • Current owner
  • Segment size
  • Modification priority
  • Read cache status (enabled, disabled)
  • Write cache status (enabled, disabled)
  • Write cache without batteries status (enabled, disabled)
  • Write cache with mirroring status (enabled, disabled)
  • Flush write cache after time
  • Cache read prefetch setting (either 0 or 1)
  • Enable background media scan status (enabled, disabled)
  • Media scan with consistency check status (enabled, disabled)
• Snapshot repository virtual disks
• Mirror repository virtual disks
• Snapshot virtual disks
• Copies

To see an example of the information returned by this command, refer to Show Virtual Disks.

Syntax

show (allVirtual Disks | virtualDisk [virtualDiskName] | virtual disks [virtualDiskName1 ... virtualDiskNamen]) [summary]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
allVirtual Disks	Use this parameter to return information about all virtual disks in the storage array.
virtualDisk or virtual disks	Name of the specific virtual disk for which you are retrieving information. You can enter more than one virtual disk name. Enclose the virtual disk name in square brackets ([ ]). If the virtual disk name has special characters, you must also enclose the virtual disk name in double quotes (" ").
summary	This parameter returns a concise list of information about the virtual disks.

Minimum Firmware Level

5.00
5.43 adds summary parameter
7.10 adds SAS