GUI Edit volume VM

Edit a VM volume in private cloud

Edit a VM volume in Azure

In private cloud, when a volume is attached to a VM, you can edit the Controller type and Controller.

Attribute

Description

Controller type

Select from the list of controllers: IDE, SCSI, SATA (ESXi), VIRTIO (KVM)

Controller

ESXi only. The user can enter one of the controllers supported by their platform, which may include:

"paravirtual" - ParaVirtualSCSIController
"bus" - VirtualBusLogicController
"sas" - VirtualLsiLogicSASController
"lsilogic" - VirtualLsiLogicController

In public cloud, when a volume is attached to a deployed VM, you can edit the size of a volume in Azure, AWS, and GCP, and the tier in Azure and AWS. To make changes to volumes in Azure, the VM must be in the "deallocated" state.

Field	Description
Name	The name of the volume
Description	A description of the volume
Total Size	Enter the volume size. You are allowed to increase the size of the volume only. After you change the size, remember to enlarge the partitions and file system.
Tier	Storage service level
Controller type	In public cloud, the platform uses the Controller type in OCI only
Controller	In public cloud, the platform does not use the Controller
Encrypted	AWS encrypted EBS volumes or OCI encrypted volumes, read only field.