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can be one of: "dir", "disk", "fs", "logical", "iscsi", "zfs", "sheepdog", "gluster", "netfs", "ceph", "rbd",  
Can be one of: "dir", "disk", "fs", "logical", "iscsi", "zfs", "sheepdog", "gluster", "netfs", "ceph", "rbd",
 
When using "pool-create-as" for a pool of type "disk", the existing partitions found on the --source-dev path will be used to populate the disk pool.


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Revision as of 15:20, 26 June 2017

Internal

Overview

Create, but do not start, a storage pool.

virsh pool-define-as <name> <type> --source-dev <source-dev> --target <target>

where:

name

The name of the storage pool.

type

Can be one of: "dir", "disk", "fs", "logical", "iscsi", "zfs", "sheepdog", "gluster", "netfs", "ceph", "rbd",

When using "pool-create-as" for a pool of type "disk", the existing partitions found on the --source-dev path will be used to populate the disk pool.

--source-dev

--target

Examples

virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool fs --source-dev /dev/sda7 --target /main-storage-pool