Creating a Standard Volume

Procedure to create standard volume.

Prerequisites

  • The fabric for which you wish to create the volume must have been created on the cloud or on-premises, or in an air-gapped environment.
  • You must have the permission to create a volume.
  • If you wish to enable data at rest encryption for the volume, the fabric must have data-at-rest encryption enabled.
  • If you wish to associate a security policy with the volume, the security policy must have been created by the fabric. manager.

About this task

The task describes how to add standard volume via the Data Fabric UI.

A standard volumes is a volume where data is originally written. A standard volume is read-write, default. It can marked as read-only, if required.

You have the option to create a new storage policy or create a new remote target to cold tiering of the volume. You can create a new storage policy or a remote target if you have not already created one or wish to create a new storage policy or remote target for the cold data that would be stored on the volume to create.

Follow the steps given below to create a standard volume.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Under the default Fabric user, click Create Volume on the Resources card.
  3. Enter the volume name.
  4. Select the fabric on which you wish to create the volume.
  5. Select the Standard option for Type.
  6. Specify the Mount Path for the volume.
  7. Enter the Volume Limit. The value specified for the volume limit must be less than or equal to the fabric capacity.
  8. Select a security policy for the volume. This is an optional step.
  9. Turn on the Data at rest encryption toggle to enable encryption for data at rest. This is an optional step.
  10. Turn on the Data tiering toggle to enable data tiering to be able to offload data to cold tier. This is an optional step.
    1. If you enable data tiering, select tiering type. On selecting tiering type as Remote archiving(Cold), you can offload data to a cold tier.
    2. If you have selected Remote archiving (cold), select the Storage policy and the Remote Target. You can create a new storage policy and/or a remote target by clicking Create new under the respective dropdowns.
  11. Click Create.

Results

The volume is successfully created on the selected fabric and the details are displayed in the list of resources under the respective fabric on the Resourcescard.

If you have turned on data tiering, tiering is enabled on the volume and you can configure tiering options on the Settings tab for the volume.

Related maprcli Commands
To implement the features described on this page, the Data Fabric UI relies on the following maprcli command. The command is provided for general reference. For more information, see maprcli Commands in This Guide.