Overview
The Cloud Management Platform (CMP) lets you create and manage your storage.
Create Storage
To create an additional volume:
- Login to your CMP account.
- Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > storage > New.
- In the Volumes dialog, enter the information as shown in the table below: Field NameDescription
Resource Pool Select your resource pool. This option is available only for Microsoft Azure cloud providers. Size Specify the resource Size. Name Enter a Name for your Storage. Type Select the storage type from the Type drop-down:
Microsoft Azure:
- Premium SSD
- Standard SSD
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- General purpose SSD
- Provisioned IOPS SSD
- Throughput optimized HDD
- Cold HDD
- Magnetic
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Standard Persistent Disk
- SSD Persistent Disk
VMware vSphere
- Fixed
- Dynamic
Termination Protection You can enable Termination Protection to protect your volume from accidental deletion. If you've enabled this option, you'll need an Administrator approval to delete your storage. - Once you create a volume, you'll see your volume go Live. Now we will have multiple options in context to this specifically created volume
You can perform the following operations on your volume:
OperationDescriptionAttach You can attach the volume to a Virtual Machine (VM) that belong to the same resource pool.
You can attach Microsoft Azure volumes to a VM if the VMs and volumes belong to the same resource groups.
Detach Lets you detach a mounted volume from a VM. Resize You can increase or decrease the size of your Volume using this operation. Clone You can replicate an existing volume that belong to the same resource pool. Timeline You can view the logs of the tasks performed within a volume. You can view the Task, Date & Time, and execution logs on via Timeline. Needs verification Destroy You can delete a volume using this operation.