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Managing Disks

Editing

If necessary, you can increase the size of the previously created disk. To do this:

  1. In the Disks tab on the iSCSI Storage page, click on the action button of the required disk and select Change disk.
  2. Make changes to Storage size and click Save.

Note

The disk's name cannot be changed. To do this, you need to delete the disk and recreate. Changing the size of the disk is possible only upward.

Deleting

You can delete created discs. To delete a disk:

  1. In the Disks tab on the iSCSI Storage page, click on the action button of the required disk and select Delete disk.
  2. Enter a name for the disc and click Delete Disc. This action will irreversibly delete the disk and all data stored on it.

Note

A disk cannot be deleted if it has a client. In this case, you must first separate the disk from the client, and then delete the disk. Also a disk cannot be deleted if it has a snapshot, you need to delete the snapshots and only then delete the disk.

Snapshots

Snapshot creation

  1. In the Disks tab on the iSCSI Storage page, click on the action button of the required disk and select Create Snapshot.

  2. In the modal window that appears, fill in the fields:
    Name - snapshot name;
    Description (optional field).

    Click Save.

The created snapshot will be displayed on the Snapshots page. On this page, you can also create snapshots and view previously created ones. To go to this page, you need to click on the number of snapshots of the selected disk, or click on the action button and select View Snapshots.

Snapshots editing

You can edit snapshots of your disks. To edit a snapshot:

  1. On the Snapshots page, click on the action button of the required snapshot and select Edit Snapshot.
  2. Change the Name and Description of the snapshot, and click Save.

Create disk from snapshot

You can also create a new disk from the selected snapshot. For this:

  1. On the Snapshots page, click on the action button of the required snapshot and select Create Disk from Snapshot.
  2. In the modal window that appears, fill in the Name of the disk and the email of the Owner, and click Save.