KVM Virtualization Partition-Based Storage Pool Configuration: Difference between revisions
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More details on the pool-list command in [[Virsh pool-list|virsh pool-list]]. | More details on the pool-list command in [[Virsh pool-list|virsh pool-list]]. | ||
Build the pool and create the mount point | Build the pool and create the mount point. More details here [[virsh pool-build]]. | ||
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Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step: | Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step. More details here: [[virsh pool-start]]. | ||
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Configure the storage pool to start at boot: | Configure the storage pool to start at boot. More details here: [[virsh pool-autostart]]. | ||
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virsh pool-autostart main-storage-pool | virsh pool-autostart main-storage-pool | ||
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Revision as of 15:50, 26 June 2017
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Internal
Overview
This article explains how to expose a pre-formatted block device partition as storage pool, using virsh.
Do not use this procedure to configure an entire disk as storage pool. Follow this procedure for that Disk-based Storage Pool Configuration.
Procedure
Create a new partition to be exposed as the local storage pool. Use fdisk. For this example, the partition will be referred to as /dev/sda7.
Create a file system on the newly allocated partition, as described in mkfs.xfs or mkfs.ext4:
mkfs.xfs /dev/sda7
Create a new storage pool definition:
virsh pool-define-as main-storage-pool fs --source-dev /dev/sda7 --target /main-storage-pool
More details on the pool-define-as command in virsh pool-define-as.
Verify the new pool:
virsh pool-list --all Name State Autostart ------------------------------------------- main-storage-pool inactive no
More details on the pool-list command in virsh pool-list.
Build the pool and create the mount point. More details here virsh pool-build.
virsh pool-build main-storage-pool
Start the storage pool. This command mounts the filesystem onto the mount point created during the previous step. More details here: virsh pool-start.
virsh pool-start main-storage-pool
Configure the storage pool to start at boot. More details here: virsh pool-autostart.
virsh pool-autostart main-storage-pool