Storage
The Storage page lists the available
storage pools, including the out of box 'default' and 'ISO' storage pool.
If you want to use your own ISO, please add it to 'ISO' storage pool path.
For each storage pool, the following information is displayed:
- Name
- Name of the storage pool and percentage used.
- State
- State of the storage pool, active (green) or inactive (red).
- Location
- File path to the location of the storage pool.
- Type
- Type of storage pool, for example, dir.
- Capacity
- Amount of space in the storage pool.
- Allocated
- Amount of space that is already allocated in the storage pool.
The following actions can be selected for each storage pool:
- Select Activate to activate the storage
pool so that it can be used.
- Select Deactivate to deactivate an active
storage pool.
- Select Undefine to remove an inactive storage
pool.
To display storage volume details for a storage pool, click the
arrow on the right side of the storage pool row. Details include
the following:
- Type
- The type of volume, for example, file.
- Format
- The format, varying dependent on the type.
- Capacity
- Size of the storage volume.
- Allocation
- Amount of space that is already allocated in the storage pool.
To define a storage pool, click the plus
(+) icon in the upper right of the display.
Define a storage pool
Define a storage pool.
- In the Storage pool name field, type the
name to be used to identify the storage pool.
- In the Storage pool type list, select the
type:
- DIR
- Specifies a directory pool. When selecting DIR,
type the Storage path (file path to the storage
pool).
- NFS
- Specifies a network filesystem pool. When selecting NFS,
type the NFS server IP address and NFS
path (path of the exported directory).
- iSCSI
- Specifies a pool based on a target allocated on an iSCSI server.
When selecting iSCSI, type the iSCSI
server IP address and Target on
the iSCSI server. You can optionally select to add iSCSI authentication.
- Logical
- Specifies a logical volume storage pool. Select the location to
the device in Device path.
- SCSI Fibre Channel
- Specifies a pool based on an SCSI Fibre Channel. Select which
SCSI adapter to use.
- Click Create.