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Creating a Network Storage volume

You can create volumes on your Lumen® Network Storage nodes to store your data. Lumen offers NFS (Network File System) volume and iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) storage. When you create the volume, you can also opt to replicate the new volume on another node.

To create a Network Storage volume:

  1. Click Services.

    Control Center shows the Services console. Use the console to access an inventory of your services, check the status of orders, and manage your services.
Services console
  1. In the Edge Services box, click Network Storage.

    Control Center shows a list of storage nodes for your organization (if any) with the name, location status, and total provisioned storage for each node.
Network Storage (showing Adaptive Storage tab and Storage Nodes subtab)
  1. Select the Network Storage node you want to work with by doing one of the following:

    • Click the link in the Node Name column.

    • On the row for the node, click (in the Actions column), then click Details.

Control Center shows details for the node: location, volumes on the node (with a status for each), and the interface pool for each volume.

Node Details (showing Volumes subtab)
  1. Click CREATE VOLUME.
Create Volume
  1. In the Alias field, type a name for the volume.
  1. In the Volume Size (GB) field, type the size of the volume or use the slider to select the size you want.
  1. In the Protocols field, select the protocol you want to use for the volume:

    • To use NFS protocol, select the NFS button and then do the following.

      1. The default selections will allow all client machines to have Read/Write access to the volume. Select the Customize Volume Access checkbox to customize access.

      2. Type the IP addresses or IPs or network CIDRs of the client machines separated by commas in the Read & Write Hosts field. 

      3. Type the IP addresses or IPs or network CIDRs of the client machines separated by commas in the Read Only Hosts field.

    • To use iSCSI protocol (block storage) for the volume, select the ISCSI radio button and then do the following:
       
      1. In the Mapped Client IQN field, type the client machine's IQN using the format iqn.yyyy-mm.naming-authority:unique name.

      2. Select the operating system from the list.
  1. In the Service Tiers field, leave the Adaptive Block/file button selected. (Control Center automatically selects this for you.)
  1. In the Cold Tiering Policy field, select the button for the policy you want to use. (Cold tiering keeps active data in Network Storage while automatically moving inactive data to a less expensive solution.)

    • Auto: Select this policy to move cold user data blocks in both the volume's snapshot copies and the active file system to the cold tier. The default tiering minimum cooling period is 31 days.

    • None: Select this policy to not move any blocks to the cold tier.

    • Snapshot Only: Select this policy to moves only data blocks of the volume's snapshots to the cold tier. The tiering cooling days is set to 2 days.

    • Custom Policy: Select this option to move cold user data blocks in both the volume's snapshot copies and the active file system to the cold tier, but to specify the cooling period (between 2 and 63 days). 
  1. In the Snapshot Policy field, select the button for the policy you want to use.
  1. If you want to replicate this volume on another node, select Yes, type a name for the replica, then select the node to which you want to add the replica.
  1. Click CREATE VOLUME.

    Control Center creates the volume on the node and places it in Configuring status. Once the volume is ready for you to use, Control Center changes the status to Online.