storage.5

NAME

storage - a table in the xCAT database.

SYNOPSIS

storage Attributes: node, osvolume, size, state, storagepool, hypervisor, fcprange, volumetag, type, controller, comments, disable

DESCRIPTION

storage Attributes:

node

The node name

osvolume

Specification of what storage to place the node OS image onto. Examples include:

localdisk (Install to first non-FC attached disk)
usbdisk (Install to first USB mass storage device seen)
wwn=0x50000393c813840c (Install to storage device with given WWN)

size

Size of the volume. Examples include: 10G, 1024M.

state

State of the volume. The valid values are: free, used, and allocated

storagepool

Name of storage pool where the volume is assigned.

hypervisor

Name of the hypervisor where the volume is configured.

fcprange

A range of acceptable fibre channels that the volume can use. Examples include: 3B00-3C00;4B00-4C00.

volumetag

A specific tag used to identify the volume in the autoyast or kickstart template.

type

The plugin used to drive storage configuration (e.g. svc)

controller

The management address to attach/detach new volumes. In the scenario involving multiple controllers, this data must be passed as argument rather than by table value

comments

Any user-written notes.

disable

Set to ‘yes’ or ‘1’ to comment out this row.

SEE ALSO

nodels(1), chtab(8), tabdump(8), tabedit(8)