Create and manage Supreme volume

IXcloud utilizes Supreme volume which is advanced one.

This volume operates advanced performance and ability suitable for enterprise sized application.

One volume is available up to 12,000 IOPS. It protects from server faults and also can minimize the effects from hardware errors.

*Process

1. How to create a volume
2. How to connect a Supreme volume to an instance
3. How to disconnect from an instance
4. How to create a volume snapshot
5. How to edit a volume
6. How to delete a volume

1. Create a volume

1. In cloud management console Click button after Project > Compute > Volume.

2. 'In the ‘Create Volume’ dialog box, do the following:

 

Volume name: specify volume name.

Description: it’s optional. Type a brief description.

Type: Select ‘Supreme’.

Size:(GB –IOPS): Choose  a suitable IOPS.

3. Click button, then you can see test_block has been created on the dashboard.

                       

2. Connect Supreme Volume to an instance

To connect to instance, you need at least one volume. You can connect one volume to an instance in a time.

1. Click button after Project > Compute > Volume. Then, click “Manage attachment’.

2. In the ‘Mange Volume Attachments’ dialog box, choose an instance to attach to.
   
   *The original device name can be different with the chosen name according to a hypervisor setting.

3. Click button. You can see the supreme volume, test_bock, has been attached to the test_planco instance.

3. Detach a volume from an instance

1. Click button of the volume you want to detach after Project > Compute >Volume, then click ‘Manage attachment’.

2. In the ‘Manage Volume Attachments’ dialog box, click .

3. Then you can see the Supreme volume has been detached from an instance.

               

4. To create a volume snapshot

1. Click of the volume in which you want to create a snapshot, then click ‘Create snapshot’ after Project > Compute > volume.

2. In the ‘create volume snapshot’ dialog box, type Snapshot name and Description.

3. Click button.

On the Volume snapshot tab, you can see the new snapshot: test_vol_snap.

5. To edit volume

1. Click button of the volume you want to edit after Project > Compute > volume.

2. Modify the name and description in the ‘Edit Volume’ dialog box.

3. Click button.

You can see the volume name has been changed  from text_block to text block_adjust.

 

6. Delete a Volume

   Even if you delete an instance, the connected volume data will not be damaged.

1. Click button after Project > Compute > Volume.

       2)    You can delete successfully when you click in the ‘Confirm Delete Volume’ dialog box.

           

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