What's New

Elastic Volume Service (EVS) has launched new features that will be available in all regions soon.

September 2020

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Extreme SSD EVS disks are commercially used.

Extreme SSD EVS disks are commercially used in the CN East-Shanghai1 region, providing you with ultra-low latency of 200 μs.

Commercial use

Extreme SSD EVS Disks

January 2020

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General purpose SSD EVS disks are provided.

Cost-effective disks are designed for high-throughput, low-latency enterprise office applications.

Commercial use

General Purpose SSD EVS Disks

September 2019

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A disk recycle bin is provided to recycle disks.

When deleting an EVS disk, you can choose not to delete the disk immediately, but put it into the recycle bin to prevent data losses caused by misoperations.

After a disk has been put into the recycle bin, you can either recover the deleted disk from the recycle bin or destroy it.

Open beta testing

Disk Recycle Bin Overview (OBT)

March 2019

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EVS disk resources are monitored.

You can view monitored EVS disk resources.

You can use Cloud Eye to monitor your EVS disks and search for the monitoring metrics and alarms generated by EVS, helping you better understand the performance metrics of EVS.

Commercial use

Viewing EVS Monitoring Data

September 2018

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Enterprise projects are supported.

On the page for purchasing an EVS disk, select an enterprise project from the Enterprise Project drop-down list.

Commercial use

Purchasing an EVS Disk

March 2018

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Tags can be added to EVS disks.

Tags identify EVS resources for purposes of easy categorization and quick search.

You can add tags when creating an EVS disk, and add or modify tags for an existing EVS disk.

Commercial use

Tag Overview

January 2018

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EVS disks can be transferred from one tenant to another through APIs.

Through the disk transfer function, disks can be transferred from one tenant to another. After the transfer succeeds, the ownerships of the disks belong to the target tenant only.

Currently, only data disks can be transferred.

Commercial use

Managing EVS Disk Transfer

July 2017

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Shared EVS disks are provided.

Shared EVS disks are block storage devices that support concurrent read/write operations and can be attached to multiple servers. Shared EVS disks feature multiple mount points, high concurrency, high performance, and high reliability.

A shared disk can be attached to a maximum of 16 servers.

Commercial use

Shared EVS Disks and Usage Instructions

March, 2017

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EVS snapshots are available.

An EVS snapshot is a complete copy or image of the disk data at a specific time point. As a major disaster recovery (DR) approach, you can use a snapshot to completely restore the data to the time point when the snapshot was created.

Open beta testing

EVS Snapshot (OBT)

February 2017

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EVS disks can be encrypted.

EVS enables you to encrypt newly created EVS disks. You do not need to establish and maintain the key management infrastructure.

Commercial use

EVS Disk Encryption

July 2015

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The EVS service is launched.

EVS offers scalable block storage for servers. With high reliability, high performance, and rich specifications, EVS disks can be used for distributed file systems, development and test environments, data warehouse applications, and high-performance computing (HPC) scenarios to meet diverse service requirements. Servers that EVS supports include Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs) and Bare Metal Servers (BMSs).

Commercial use

Introduction to EVS