View and onboard storage volumes in public cloud

In public cloud regions, for Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, you can work with virtual storage to create volumes to attach to your VM.

Privilege: Manage virtual storage elements

Volumes of external storage can be persistent and independent of VMs. Volumes are

To display all volumes of your tenant, including recently onboarded volumes:

The platform will display all volumes from public and private cloud.

To display all volumes in the platform in a public cloud region:

The platform will display all volumes in the public cloud region.

To onboard volumes from a public cloud region and synchronize existing volumes,

To display all volumes in a virtual datacenter:

Notes:

To onboard and synchronize volumes, your user must be able to access All virtual datacenters in the tenant.
By default, the platform will destroy the VM system disk (hard disk) when you undeploy or delete the VM.
In the Amazon console, when you create a VM (an Amazon Instance), you can select an EBS disk and configure it as "Delete on Termination". This means that the provider will destroy the disk when you terminate the VM. If you onboard a VM with these disks into Abiquo, when you undeploy or delete the VM, the platform will destroy the disks. To keep the disks, before you undeploy the VM, detach the disks from the VM in Abiquo, and the platform will synchronize them as volumes.
In OCI, Abiquo imports shared volumes that are attached to a VM. You cannot create shared volumes in Abiquo
- For each VM using the volume, Abiquo reports a new volume
- You can import shared volumes attached to a VM only
- You cannot reconfigure or delete shared volumes because you cannot detach them from VMs
- You can resize shared volumes