st_volume_create

This job creates a new local volume and returns the volume ID. The type of volume (data or archive) depends on the 'type' parameter value.

Parameter Name	Data Type	Description
name	string	Name of the new volume
type	string	The volume type ('data' or 'archive').
disk	string	Name of the disk to be used for the volume.
size	string	Volume size with unit in string format. Example: 1 GiB.
nodes	list	List of node IDs (integers)
redundancy	integer	redundancy level

Parameter Name	Data Type	Description
owner	tuple, list	Owner ID and owner group ID in list or tuple.
num_master_nodes	integer	Number of master nodes in the new volume.
block_size	string, integer	Block size of the new volume with unit. Example: 64 KiB.
stripe_size	string, integer	Stripe size of the new volume. Example: 64 KiB.
partition_size	string, integer	The size of the partitions, applies only to archive volumes, default is 4 GiB.
permissions	string	permissions of the new volume.
shared	boolean	Boolean value which indicating whether the volume is shared.
priority	string	Volume priority.
http_port	integer	HTTP port, on which the archive volume should be accessible.
https_port	integer	HTTPS port, on which the archive volume should be accessible.
ftp_port	integer	FTP port, on which the archive volume should be accessible.
ftps_port	integer	FTPS port, on which the archive volume should be accessible.
sftp_port	integer	SFTP port, on which the archive volume should be accessible.

There are no substitute parameters.

There are no defined allowed users.

The following groups are allowed to run this job:

• root

• exaadm

• exadbadm

The following code snippets show how to use this job using both Python (via XML-RPC) and on the command-line using confd_client.