Create Volume and Attach
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​
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Navigate to
Project > Storage > Volumes
>+ CREATE VOLUME
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For this creation, fill in the following fields:
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Available Zone: Specify Available Zone of Volume to create in. Choose Not Select unless clearly knowing which to assign.
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*Data Source Type:
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*Blank Volume : Create volume without exsist image or volume snapshot.
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*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
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*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.
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*Capacity (GiB): Set capacity of the volume (GiB, minimum 1).
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*Name : Input desired name of the volume showing on dashboard.
After filling all fields above, click
Confirm
to apply user creation.
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Use the dashboard to verify the Volume creation.
Attach Volume​
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Navigate to
Project > Compute > Instances
, choose desired project, than hover toMore
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Hover to
Related Resources
at the drop down menu, then clickAttach Volume
from drop down expended. -
Select Volumes. Click
OK
button to proceed. -
Verify the attachment through console. See Connect to Instance by noVNC for more info.