Create a disk type

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Cloud Services.

  1. From the left navigation pane, select Compute & Storage > Disks.

  1. On the Disk Types tab, click Create.

  1. Configure disk type parameters as needed.

  1. Click OK.

Table-1 Configuring disk type parameters

Parameter

Description

Name

Enter a name for the disk type.

Provisioning Type

Select a provisioning mode:

·          Thick—Assign a fixed amount of space to a storage volume. The system populates a thick-provisioned storage volume with data when creating it, regardless of whether service data is written to the storage volume. The capacity of a thick-provisioned storage volume does not change when you delete data from it.

·          Thin—Assign space to a storage volume dynamically based on the data written to it. For example, if you create a 1-TB thin-provisioned storage volume, its capacity is 300 GB when it stores only 300 GB of data.

Encryption

Configure disk encryption. Only CAS supports this feature. Access to encrypted disks requires a password.