Cloud Storage Management

Overview

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The HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP) lets you create and manage your storage.

Create Storage

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To create an additional volume:

1. Login to your HCP account.

2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > storage > New.

3. In the Volumes dialog, enter the information as shown in Table 1.

4. Once you create a volume, you'll see your volume go Live. Now we will have multiple options in context to this specifically created volume

5. The operations that you can perform on your volume are listed out in Table 2.

Table 1: Enter the following information in the Volumes dialog.

 

Field Name	Description
Resource Pool	Select your resource pool. This option is available only for Microsoft Azure cloud providers.
Size	Specify the resource Size.
Name	Enter a Name for your Storage.
Type	Select the storage type from the Type drop-down: Microsoft Azure: Premium SSD Standard SSD Amazon Web Services (AWS) General purpose SSD Provisioned IOPS SSD Throughput optimized HDD Cold HDD Magnetic Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Standard Persistent Disk SSD Persistent Disk VMware vSphere  Fixed Dynamic
Termination Protection	You can enable Termination Protection to protect your volume from accidental deletion. If you've enabled this option, you'll need an Administrator approval to delete your storage.

 

Table 2: Operations you can perform on your volume.

 

 

Operation	Description
Attach	You can attach the volume to a Virtual Machine (VM) that belong to the same resource pool. You can attach Microsoft Azure volumes to a VM if the VMs and volumes belong to the same resource groups.
Detach	Lets you detach a mounted volume from a VM.
Resize	You can increase or decrease the size of your Volume using this operation.
Clone	You can replicate an existing volume that belong to the same resource pool.
Timeline	You can view the logs of the tasks performed within a volume. You can view the Task, Date & Time, and execution logs on via Timeline. Needs verification
Destroy	You can delete a volume using this operation. [1]

 

 

Notes:

• ^[1] You cannot destroy a volume without detaching it from a VM.

  • If you've enabled Termination Protection policy, you'll need an Administrator approval to delete your storage.