Storage

This page introduces virtual storage management with the Abiquo platform at the Infrastructure level.

It describes Abiquo concepts of persistent storage, and storage tiers for implementing storage service levels.

Introduction to persistent storage

Abiquo works with non-persistent and persistent storage. Persistent storage refers to storage elements that will not be destroyed when you undeploy a VM.

In general:

• A volume is an element of persistent storage that will not be destroyed when you undeploy the VM.

• A hard-disk is an element of non-persistent storage that will be destroyed when you undeploy the VM.

Most private cloud environments use non-persistent storage with hard disks on the hypervisor datastore.

Most public cloud environments offer a combination of hard disks and storage volumes. For example, for volumes, in Amazon the platform creates EBS disks and in Azure the platform creates Managed Disks. If a user creates a VM with a hard disk that the cloud provider will keep after the user destroys the VM, then the platform will manage the hard disk as a storage volume.

Introduction to datastore tiers

Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers

Display datastore tiers

Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers

Related pages

The following pages are related to storage:

• Private cloud

  • Hypervisor datastores: Compute in datacenters

  • Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers

  • Allocation rules

• Public cloud

  • Manage auxiliary hard disks and volumes: VM storage

  • Manage storage in public cloud