Managing compute volumes

A volume in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is a virtual disk drive that can be attached to a virtual machine. The integrity of data in volumes is protected by the redundancy mode specified in the storage policy.

Limitations

• You cannot shrink volumes.
• You can only extend volumes that are in use if they are attached to stopped VMs.
• You cannot change the volume redundancy type.
• You can clone volumes that are not attached to VMs or attached to stopped VMs.
• A volume is removed along with all of its snapshots.

Prerequisites

• To be able to use volumes attached to VMs, they must be initialized inside the guest OS by standard means.

To create a volume

1. On the Compute > Storage > Volumes tab, click Create volume.

   

2. In the Create volume window, specify a volume name and size in gigabytes, select a storage policy, and then click Create.

To edit a volume

1. On the Compute > Storage > Volumes tab, click a volume.
2. Cclick the pencil icon next to a parameter you need to change.

To clone a volume

1. On the Compute > Storage > Volumes tab, click a volume.
2. On the volume right pane, click Clone.

3. In the Clone volume window, specify a volume name, size, and storage policy. Click Clone.

   

To remove a volume

1. On the Compute > Storage > Volumes tab, check the status of the volume you want to remove.
2. If the status is "In use", click the volume, and then click Force detach.
3. If the status is "Available", click the volume, and then click Delete.