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| Open the Volumes configuration from the EC2 dashboard |
This will open the volume overview screen. |
| Create a new volume | Click on the Create Volume button on top of the volume overview screen.
This will open the volume creation window. |
SelectÂ
Then click on Create Volume.
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| You will receive a confirmation window. Close it to return to the volume overview screen where you should now see the new volume. |
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| Attach the volume to your instance | In the volumes overview screen, check that your volume has the state available. Right-click on it and select Attach Volume. This will open a small input screen. |
Select the instance to which the volume is to be attached. Optionally, you can change the device name that will be presented to the Charon-SSP AWS instance. Click on Attach to confirm the configuration and to attach the volume to the instance. The status of the volume in the volume overview screen will change from available to in-use. | |
| Verify success in the instance description | Go to the instance overview list and select your instance. In the description storage tab at the bottom, you will see that the instance now has two block devices.
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Detaching a Volume from an Instance
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If the volume is not the root device of the instance, unmount the volume in the Charon host system before detaching it (see Steps on the Charon-SSP Manager section Host System below).
Then detach the volume from your instance:
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Steps on the Charon-SSP Host System
Mounting a Newly Attached Volume Using the Storage Manager (
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AL Images only)
After the volume has been attached to the instance, it must be included in the Charon-SSP host system configuration. This On a Charon-SSP AL instance, this is achieved via the Charon-SSP Manager.
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- Stop all Charon instances that might use the volume that is about to be unmounted.
- On host systems based on Marketplace AL images:
- In Charon Manager go to Tools > AWS Cloud > Storage Manager.
- Select the volume.
- Click on the cogwheel symbol and select Unmount the Filesystem.
- On other systems:
- Use the command
# umount <device-path>or# umount <mount-point> - To make this permanent, remove the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab.
- Use the command
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