Creating Storage

Note

This page is a quick-start guide for creating a storage resource from scratch. You can also add pre-configured storage resources from the ACTIVATE Marketplace. For more information, please see Navigating the Marketplace.

Navigate to one of the Storage pages: Lustre, NFS, Disks, or Buckets.

Click + Add.

Screenshot of the user clicking + Add Storage in the Storage page.

A menu opens where you can choose which type of storage to create.

Screenshot of the Storage page immediately after clicking the + Add Storage button.

Select a storage type. The visible options depend on which storage category you're creating (Lustre, NFS, Disks, or Buckets).

Enter a name for the resource. The description is optional. Buckets also take a globally-unique Bucket name, and you can set the Cloud account, Region, and Billing group from the pills below it.

If you're configuring a Lustre storage, select whether it will be Ephemeral or Persistent. Please see Storage Types for more information.

Click Create.

Screenshot of the user clicking Create after configuring a storage resource.

Next, you’ll see the new storage resource's Details page. Please see Configuring Storage for the next steps.

Screenshot of the Details page of a newly created storage resource.

Note

After you create a persistent storage resource, it will appear in the matching storage module on the Dashboard. You can hide storage resources from the Dashboard by clicking the eye icon on the Storage page.

However, ephemeral storage resources will not appear on the Dashboard because they cannot be started independently; they must be attached to a cluster, where the storage will be created, started, and deleted along with the cluster.

For more information, please see Storage Types.

Favoriting Storage

When you create a persistent storage resource, it will automatically be added to the matching storage module on your Dashboard.

You can also add frequently used storage resources to your Dashboard by hovering over the row and clicking the heart icon. The icon will change to a filled heart after you click it.

Screenshot of the user selecting the favorite icon on the Storage page.

The storage resource will now appear in its storage module on the Dashboard.

Screenshot of the favorited storage resource appearing on the user's Dashboard.

Note

You cannot favorite ephemeral storage resources.

Which type of storage should I use?

Lustre is a high input/output filesystem, so we recommend using Lustre storage resources only when you're completing compute work that needs that type of performance.

The other storage resources work well for general use.