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How to manage storage volumes for attaching to VMs and VMs created and running on storage volumes in the hybrid cloud platform. |
Manage persistent volumes
In private cloud datacenters and public cloud regions, depending on your environment, you can work with virtual storage in the form of volumes and hard disks.
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Privileges: Manage virtual storage elements, Manage virtual storage controller, Modify allocation when attaching a disk |
Volumes on external storage devices are persistent and independent of the VMs. In contrast, hard disks on the hypervisor datastore are non-persistent and they are destroyed when deleted from the VMs or when the VMs are undeployed. This section covers volumes.
Display persistent storage
To display external storage volumes, go to Virtual datacenters → Volumes
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Create a volume of managed storage
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API Documentation For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource VolumesResource. |
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After you create the volume, to attach it to a VM, edit the VM and go to the Storage tab. See VM storage
For information about creating generic iSCSI volumes, see Creating a Generic iSCSI Volume
Modify a volume
To edit a volume, select the volume and click the edit button. For managed storage volumes, you can modify the Controller type, and on ESXi you can also modify the Controller.
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Resize a storage volume
You can only increase volume size of managed storage volumes, not generic iSCSI storage volumes. After you change the size, remember to enlarge the partitions and file system.
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$ umount /dev/xxx (/dev/xxx is the partition of the resized volume, inside the VM) $ parted /dev/xxx # resize Y start end (Y is the partition number, and start/end of the partition varies in each case) $ resize2fs /dev/sdx |
Move volumes between virtual datacenters
Both managed storage and generic iSCSI volumes can be moved between virtual datacenters, but only if the volumes are not attached to a VM. Volumes can be moved between virtual datacenters that belong to the same physical datacenter and enterprise.
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Delete a volume
Notes about deleting volumes:
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Select the volume
Click the trash delete button.
Persistent volumes
What happens when I create a volume and attach it to a VM?
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Related pages
Work with VMs
Administer virtual resources
Configure datacenter storage, see Storage