How to create thin gk devices?

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• How to create GateKeeper Devices

  symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "create gatekeeper count=10,emulation=FBA;" commit

  Create 10 thick gatekeeper devices of FBA emulation. The size of each device will be ~3MB/3 cylinders.

• How to create a DATA device

  symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "create dev count=4, config=RAID-5, data_member_count=3, attribute=datadev, emulation=FBA, size=2GB, disk_group=1;" commit

  Create 4 RAID-5 DATADEVS of 2GB each in diskgroup1 with FBA emulation.

• How to create TDEVS and bind to a thin pool

  symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "create dev count=10, size=10GB, emulation=FBA, config=TDEV, binding to pool=MyPool;" commit

  Create 10 thin devices of size 20GB with emulation type as FBA and also bind to thin pool MyPool.

• How to unbind TDEVs from a thin pool

  symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "unbind tdev AAAA:AAAB from pool T2_2TB;" commit

  Unbind thin devices AAAA to AAAB from it bounded thin pool T2_2TB.

• How to reclaim the allocated but unwritten space as well as the allocated thin pool space completely written with zeros even it is allocated as persistent

  symconfigure -sid 1234 -cmd "start reclaim on tdev AAA:AAF allocate_type = persistent;" commit

  Reclaim the allocated but unwritten space as well as the allocated thin pool space completely written with zeros, even it is allocated as persistent .

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