Add an external storage volume

You can add to the appliance a storage volume that exists on a storage system under management of the appliance.

Prerequisites

  • Minimum required session ID privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Storage administrator

  • The appliance manages the storage system and storage pool that contains the storage volume you want to add.

Add an external storage volume using REST APIs
  1. Select a storage system URI.

    GET /rest/storage-systems

  2. Select a storage pool from the storage system URI you selected in step 1.

    GET {storage system URI}/storage-pools

  3. Add the storage volume with the information from the previous steps.

    POST /rest/storage-volumes