Create and attach a volume

Use this procedure to provision a new block storage volume. Users can attach Volume to an existing compute instance to provide additional persistent storage.

Create Volume

1. Navigate to Project > Storage > Volumes > + CREATE VOLUME

   

2. For this creation, fill in the following fields:

   • Available Zone: Specify Available Zone of Volume to create in. Choose Not Select unless clearly knowing which to assign.

   • *Data Source Type:

     • *Blank Volume : Create volume without exsist image or volume snapshot.

     • *Image : Create volume with exsist image.

       Following attributes :

       *Operating System : images categories by its os type and versions, notices that image imported by CLI will all be categorized in Others, can be reassigned its category from Images. See Import image(CLI) for more.

       

     • *Volume Snapshot : Create volume with exsist volume snapshot.

       Following attributes :

       *Volume Snapshot : images categories by its os type and versions, notices that image imported by CLI will all be categorized in Others, can be reassigned its category from Images. See Volume Snapshots for more.

       

   • *Capacity (GiB): Set capacity of the volume (GiB, minimum 1).

   • *Name : Input desired name of the volume showing on dashboard.

     After filling all fields above, click Confirm to apply user creation.

     

3. Use the dashboard to verify the Volume creation.

   

Attach Volume

1. Navigate to Project > Compute > Instances, choose desired project, than hover to More.

   

2. Hover to Related Resources at the drop down menu, then click Attach Volume from drop down expended.

   

3. Select Volumes. Click OK button to proceed.

   

4. Verify the attachment through console. See Connect to Instance by noVNC for more info.