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We got 12 new 8TB drives and as there a different drive size to the other NL drives in the system I would like to create a CPG just for the 8TB.

BNE-3PAR cli% createcpg -sdgs 64g -t r6 -ha mag -ssz 10 -ss 128 -p -devid SMKP8
000S5xeN7.2 bne.noao.nl.r6.02
Error: no available space for given (invalid?) parameters


BNE-3PAR cli% showpd -c -p -devid SMKP8000S5xeN7.2
-------- Normal Chunklets -------- ---- Spare Chunklets ----
- Used - -------- Unused --------- - Used - ---- Unused ----
Id CagePos Type State Total OK Fail Free Uninit Unavail Fail OK Fail Free Uninit Fail
48 2:2:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
49 2:3:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
52 2:6:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
53 2:7:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
56 2:10:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
57 2:11:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
60 2:14:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
61 2:15:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
64 2:18:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
65 2:19:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
68 2:22:0 NL normal 7293 0 0 7293 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
69 2:23:0 NL normal 7293 1 0 7292 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
12 total 87516 6 0 87510 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Doesn't make sense to me? It's really anoying the SMMC doesn't have disk filter options like the old HP 3PAR Managment Console.

But either way I can't get my CPG created.

With 3.3.1 it should work. With 3.2.2 you don't have Express Layout on NL drives and need 20 drives to create LDs with setsize 10.

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we are running 3.3.1
changing the set size to 6 doesn't help

createcpg -sdgs 64g -t r6 -ha mag -ssz 6 -ss 128 -p -devid SMKP8000S5xeN7.2 bne.noao.nl.r6.02

BNE-3PAR cli% showversion
Release version 3.3.1 (MU2)
Patches: P32,P34,P36,P37,P39,P40,P42

Component Name Version
CLI Server 3.3.1 (P40)
CLI Client 3.3.1
System Manager 3.3.1 (P40)
Kernel 3.3.1 (MU2)
TPD Kernel Code 3.3.1 (MU2)
TPD Kernel Patch 3.3.1 (P40)

BNE-3PAR cli% createcpg -sdgs 64g -t r6 -ha mag -ssz 6 -ss 128 -p -devid SMKP8000S5xeN7.2 bne.noao.nl.r6.02
Error: no available space for given (invalid?) parameters
BNE-3PAR cli%

BNE-3PAR cli% showspace -ha mag -p -devid SMKP8000S5xeN7.2
--Estimated(MB)---
RawFree UsableFree
0 0

Wasn't sure if showspace could like that.
Doing a statement for all NL works fine.

BNE-3PAR cli% showspace -ha mag -p -devtype NL
---Estimated(MB)----
RawFree UsableFree
172056576 129042432

I've only had to filter on type (FC/NL) before and don't have a system that uses that anymore alas but have you tried using the disk size filters instead? If it works it means any later replacements or additions with a newer model will be covered.

-tc_gt
-tc_lt