Chapter 5. Managing Storage Pools
Setting up, managing and monitoring system storage is a vital role of a hardware administrator. While this can be a complex task in any environment, it can become even more complex in a data centre with virtualized storage. oVirt's Administration User Interface provides hardware administrators with tools to assign and manage virtualized storage effectively and efficiently. The oVirt User Interface allows you to add either existing or new storage pools to a hardware pool.
5.1. Adding Existing Storage to the Resource Pool
This process shows how to add an existing storage pool to an existing hardware pool using the Storage Tab. The Storage toolbar allows you to add a storage pool, create storage servers, move servers and delete storage.
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You can also add storage servers from the Summary page.
In the Navigator panel, select the required hardware pool node. The Summary page and the Hardware Pool menu display.
From the menu bar, click the tab. The Storage page and toolbar display.
Click Add Storage Server from the toolbar. The Add Storage Pool dialog box displays.
The Add Storage Pool dialog box allows you to either add a new storage pool or import an existing storage pool.
To add an existing storage pool, click the tab.
The on the Add Storage dialog box displays the alias, Existing hardware pool, IP and Type of the available Storage Servers.
Select the storage pools that you wish to add to the hardware pool. At least one storage pool must be selected for the button to be enabled.
Click . The storage pool displays on the Storage Page of the hardware pool.