Managing storage pools

During the life of a storage pool many things can happen: the pool could run out of space, disks could fail, the network topology might change etc.

To manage a storage pool click on the Storage pool in the Storage page list.

  1. A Drive is a volume allocated to an instance from this storage pool (not a physical disk)

  2. A File Share is a drive that can be attached to multiple instances (eg: for VMWare)

  3. An Object Storage Bucket is a logical container used to store objects, which are units of data that include:
    • The actual data (e.g., a file, image, video, backup)
    • Metadata (descriptive information about the object)
    • A unique identifier (used to retrieve the object)

Putting a storage pool in maintenance mode

The maintenance mode is used to block all subsequent provisioning on the respective pool but will not affect existing LUNs.

Depending the operation that the admin wants to do it might be required that all servers that use volumes from this storage system are shutdown.

The admin should contact all users of those servers and schedule the downtime.