Creating a Volume in a Virtual Machine

Create a volume to attach a new, blank volume to a virtual machine (VM). (You can also attach an existing, unattached volume as described in Attaching a Volume to a Virtual Machine.)

To create a new volume in a VM

1. Open the Virtual Machines page (see the Virtual Machines Page).
2. Select a VM and click Shutdown.
3. When the VM has stopped, click Config to display the Reprovision Virtual Machine wizard.
4. Click Next on each wizard page until the Volumes page is displayed. (If applicable, see Reprovisioning Virtual Machine Resources to configure additional VM resources.)
5. On the Volumes page, click Add a new volume. (If the button is not visible, scroll down to the bottom of the wizard page.)
6.  Under To Be Created, do the following:

   1. Type the Name of the volume as it will appear in the ztC Edge Console.

      The volume name must meet the following requirements:

      • Valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 , +, _, and . (dot).
      • A volume name cannot be only . or .. (dots).
      • A volume name cannot be snapshot or pvmove.
      • A volume name cannot contain any of the following reserved strings: _cdata, _cmeta, _corig, _mlog, _mimage, _pmspare, _rimage, _rmeta, _tdata, _tmeta, or _vorigin.

   2. Type the Volume Size of the volume to create in gigabytes (GB). For more information about allocating storage, see and Planning Virtual Machine Storage.

7. Click Next on each wizard page until the Configuration Summary page is displayed. Verify the configuration changes.
8. Click Finish to create the volume.
9. Start the VM and prepare the volume for use in the guest operating system, as described in:
   • Creating and Initializing a Disk (Windows-based VMs)
   • Creating and Initializing a Disk (Linux-based VMs)