Translations:Managing your cloud resources with OpenStack/14/en

Mounting a Volume on a VM

Attaching a Volume

Managing attachments command in Actions menu (Click for larger image)

• Attaching is the process of associating a volume with a VM. This is analogous to inserting a USB key or plugging an external drive into your personal computer.
• You can attach a volume from the Volumes page in the Dashboard.
• At the right-hand end of the line describing the volume is the Actions column; from the drop-down menu, select "Manage Attachments."
• In the "Attach To Instance" drop-down menu, select a VM.
• Click the blue "Attach Volume" button.

Attaching should complete in a few seconds. Then the Volumes page will show the newly created volume attached to your selected VM on /dev/vdb or some similar location.

Formatting a newly created Volume

• Formatting is the process of preparing a volume to store directories and files.
• Before a newly created and attached volume can be used, it must be formatted.
• Formatting erases all existing information on a volume and therefore should be done with care.
• See instructions for doing this on a Linux or Windows VM.

Mounting a Volume

• Mounting is the process of mapping the volume's filesystem logically within the VM's directory and file structure.
• To mount the volume, use a command similar to [name@server ~]$ sudo mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt depending on the device name, disk layout, and the desired mount point in your filesystem.

This command makes the volume's directory and file structure available under the VM's /mnt directory.