Create & Attach an empty Volume

This is the procedure to create and attach a Vitis Volume to your instance.

Step 1: Insure that you are logged into the VMAccel portal:

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Step 2: Create a Volume using the following steps:

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• Name your volume

• Add any description you want

• Click on the Volume Source and Select “No Source, empty volume “

• Click on Type and select “_DEFAULT_”

• Click on Size (GiB) and enter the size of the volume you would like to create.

  • For this example, I chose 25

• Click on Create Volume

Step 3: When the volume has completed building. Check to ensure that there were no errors, you should see something like this:

• You can click on the “Edit Volume” button to attach or attach the volume from the instance menu. Step 4.

Step 4: Return to the Compute / Instances and attach the new volume to your instance.

NOTE: Think of this as plugging in a USB drive to your PC.

• Click on the down triangle next to “Create Snapshot”

• Click on “Attach Volume”

Step 5: Click on the “Select a volume” dropdown menu.

• Select the Vitis volume you just created and click “Attach Volume”

Step 6: You will need to format the disk in the guest OS before using it to store data.