Volumes

Overview

Volumes let you provision storage from storage nodes in your infrastructure and mount them on baremetal servers.

The workflow has two parts:

1. Create a volume under Storage → Volumes.
2. Mount the volume on a bare metal server under Compute → BareMetal.

Prerequisites

• Tenant Admin access — Log in as a Tenant Admin to create volumes and mount them on bare metal servers.
• Storage nodes — Storage nodes available in your tenant infrastructure.
• Allocated bare metal — At least one allocated bare metal server to mount the volume on.

Create a Volume

Step 1: Open Volumes

1. In the sidebar, go to Storage → Volumes.
2. Click Create volumes.

Step 2: Configure the Volume

1. Enter a Name.
2. Select the Vendor.
3. Enter the Storage Size in GB.
4. Click Create.

Step 3: Verify Volume Creation

1. The new volume appears in the Volumes table with a Processing state.
2. Wait for the volume to reach the Success state. Creation time depends on the volume size.

Step 4: View Volume Details

1. In the Volumes table, click the Actions menu (⋮) for the volume and select View.

2. Review the volume details on the overview page:

   • Volume Name
   • Storage Size (GB)
   • Storage Hostname
   • Vendor
   • Storage IP
   • Storage Class

Mount Volume on Bare Metal

Step 1: Open the Bare Metal Server

1. In the sidebar, go to Compute → BareMetal.
2. Click the Actions menu (⋮) for the target server and select View.

Step 2: Open the Storage Tab

1. Open the Storage tab.
2. Click Mount Volume.

Step 3: Configure the Mount

1. Enter a Name for the mount.
2. Select the Volume created in the previous section.
3. Click Submit.

Step 4: Verify the Mount

1. The mount appears in the table with a Processing state.
2. Wait for the mount to reach the Success state. Mount time depends on the volume size.
3. After success, the table shows the mount Name, Volume, and mount Path.

Next Steps

• Cluster Templates Overview — Choose a cluster template and create a Kubernetes cluster on your allocated bare metal resources.
• Slurm Cluster Overview — Learn about Slurm workload management and create clusters for HPC workloads.