Elastic Volume Service
Elastic Volume Service
- What's New
- Function Overview
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Service Overview
- EVS Infographics
- What Is EVS?
- Disk Types and Performance
- Device Types and Usage Instructions
- Shared EVS Disks and Usage Instructions
- EVS Encryption
- EVS Backup
- EVS Snapshot (OBT)
- Differences Between EVS Backups and EVS Snapshots
- EVS Three-Copy Redundancy
- Billing
- Permissions
- Constraints
- EVS and Other Services
- Basic Concepts
- Change History
- Getting Started
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User Guide
- Permissions Management
- Purchasing and Using an EVS Disk
- Attaching an Existing EVS Disk
- Viewing EVS Disk Details
- Changing the EVS Disk Type (OBT)
- Expanding EVS Disk Capacity
- Detaching and Deleting an EVS Disk
- Managing EVS Snapshots (OBT)
- Managing Encrypted EVS Disks
- Managing Shared EVS Disks
- Managing EVS Disk Backups
- Managing EVS Transfers
- Managing EVS Tags
- Managing EVS Quotas
- Cloud Eye Monitoring
- Recording EVS Operations Using CTS
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Best Practices
- Using LVM to Manage EVS Disks
- Handling Insufficient Disk Space on a Windows ECS
- RAID Array Creation with EVS Disks
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Extending Disk Partitions and File Systems (Linux Kernel Earlier Than 3.6.0)
- Preparing for Extending Disk Partitions and File Systems (Linux Kernel Earlier Than 3.6.0)
- Extending System Disk Partitions and File Systems (Linux Kernel Earlier Than 3.6.0)
- Extending Data Disk Partitions and File Systems (Linux Kernel Earlier Than 3.6.0)
- Extending SCSI Data Disk Partitions and File Systems (Linux Kernel Earlier Than 3.6.0)
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API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- Calling APIs
- Getting Started
- API Version Query
- API v2
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OpenStack Cinder API v2
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EVS Disk
- Creating EVS Disks
- Deleting an EVS Disk
- Updating an EVS Disk
- Querying EVS Disks
- Querying Details About All Disks
- Querying Details About a Disk
- Querying EVS Disk Types
- Querying Details About an EVS Disk Type
- Querying Details of Tenant Quotas
- Adding the Metadata for an EVS Disk
- Querying Metadata of an EVS Disk
- Updating the Metadata of an EVS Disk
- Querying One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Disk
- Updating One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Disk
- Deleting One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Disk
- Querying Extension APIs
- Querying All AZs
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EVS Disk Actions
- Expanding Capacity of an EVS Disk
- Setting Bootable Flag for an EVS Disk
- Setting Read-Only Flag for an EVS Disk
- Exporting EVS Disk Data as an Image
- Attaching an EVS Disk (Deprecated)
- Detaching an EVS Disk (Deprecated)
- Reserving an EVS Disk (Deprecated)
- Canceling Reservation of an EVS Disk (Deprecated)
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EVS Snapshot
- Creating an EVS Snapshot
- Deleting an EVS Snapshot
- Updating an EVS Snapshot
- Querying EVS Snapshots
- Querying Details About EVS Snapshots
- Querying Details About an EVS Snapshot
- Adding Metadata of an EVS Snapshot
- Querying Metadata of an EVS Snapshot
- Updating One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Snapshot
- Updating the Metadata of an EVS Snapshot
- Querying One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Snapshot
- Deleting One Piece of Metadata for an EVS Snapshot
- EVS Disk Transfer
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EVS Disk
- Out-of-Date APIs
- Permissions Policies and Supported Actions
- Appendix
- Change History
- SDK Reference
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FAQs
- Summary
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General
- How Do I Start Using a Newly Purchased Disk?
- Can EVS Disks Be Used Directly for Storage?
- Can EVS Disks Be Used Alone?
- How Can I View My Disk Details?
- How Do I Change the Name of My Disk?
- Can I Change the AZ of My Disk?
- Can I Change the Disk Type, Device Type, or Sharing Attribute of My Disk?
- What Should I Do If an Error Occurs on My EVS Disk?
- How Can I Obtain ECS NIC Information?
- Why Do Some of My EVS Disks Not Have WWN Information?
- How Can I Migrate Data from an EVS Disk?
- What Are the Differences Between System Disks and Data Disks?
- Will I Lose My Disk Data If I Reinstall ECS OS, Change the OS, or Change the ECS Specifications?
- How Can I Export the Original Data After I Changed My Server OS from Windows to CentOS?
- What Are the Differences Between MBR and GPT Partition Styles?
- What Does the "reserveVolume" Trace Mean in CTS?
- How Can I Download My EVS Disk Data to a Local PC?
- How Can I Upload Files to My EVS Disk?
- Billing
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Attachment
- Why Can't I View the Attached Data Disk on the Server?
- Why Can't I Attach My Disk to a Server?
- Can I Attach a Disk to Multiple Servers?
- Can I Attach a Disk to a Server in a Different AZ?
- How Can I Add a Data Disk to an Existing Server?
- Can I Attach Different Types of Disks to the Same Server?
- Can I Switch Between System Disks and Data Disks?
- What Should I Do If a Linux EVS Disk Is Attached to a Windows Server?
- Can I Change the Function of a System Disk or Data Disk Purchased Along with a Server?
- How Do I Obtain My Disk Device Name in the ECS OS Using the Device Identifier Provided on the Console?
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Capacity Expansion
- Can I Reduce or Temporarily Expand the Disk Capacity?
- What Are the Differences Between Expanding Capacity by Expanding an EVS Disk and Creating a New EVS Disk?
- Will My Disk Data Be Lost After I Expand the Disk Capacity?
- Can I Use Backups or Snapshots Created Before Capacity Expansion to Restore Data on Expanded Disks?
- Do I Need to Restart the Server After Expanding the Disk Capacity?
- Do I Need to Detach an EVS Disk Before Expanding Its Capacity?
- What Should I Do If My Disk Capacity Exceeds 2 TiB After Expansion?
- How Can I Allocate Newly Added Space to a New Partition?
- How Can I Allocate Newly Added Space to an Existing Partition?
- Why Did My Disk Capacity Remain Unchanged on the Server After Capacity Expansion?
- Why Can't I Expand Capacity for My Disk?
- How Do I Extend the File System of an Unpartitioned Data Disk in Linux?
- How Do I Extend the Root Partition of a Quickly Provisioned BMS?
- How Do I View the Disk Partition Style in Linux?
- Detachment
- Deletion
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Capacity
- What Is the Maximum Capacity Supported for the System and Data Disks?
- What Should I Do If My Disk Starts to Run Out of Space?
- How Do I Clean Up My Disk Space on a Windows Server?
- What Can I Do If the Capacity of My Disk Reaches the Maximum But I Still Need More Space?
- What Should I Do If I Use fdisk to Initialize a Disk Larger Than 2 TiB and Then the Space in Excess of 2 TiB Cannot Be Displayed?
- How Can I View My Disk Usage?
- How Can I Monitor My Disk Usages?
- Can I Transfer the Data Disk Capacity to a System Disk?
- Why the Space of My New Disk Is Full After I Uploaded Only 500 MB of Files to the Disk?
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Snapshot
- What Are the Typical Causes of a Snapshot Creation Failure?
- Does EVS Support Automatic Snapshot Creation?
- Can I Create Snapshots for Multiple Disks at a Time?
- How Is a Snapshot Created for My Disk?
- Why Can't I Roll Back My Disk Data from a Snapshot?
- Can I Roll Back Data from a Snapshot After Reinstalling the OS or Formatting the Disk?
- How Is the Snapshot Size Calculated?
- Do Snapshots Take Space on the Disk?
- Can I Perform Multiple Rollback Operations for a Snapshot?
- Can I Replicate Snapshots to Other Regions or Accounts?
- Why Can't I Find My Snapshot?
- Can I Use a Snapshot to Create a Disk and Roll Back Disk Data at Almost the Same Time?
- Can I Modify Data in My EVS Snapshot?
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Performance
- How Do I Test My Disk Performance?
- Why Does My Disk Performance Test Using Fio Have Incorrect Results?
- How Can I Handle a Slowdown in Disk Read/Write Speed or Increased I/Os?
- How Can I Improve My Disk Performance?
- Why My Disk's Read IOPS Can't Reach the Theoretical Maximum IOPS When the Disk I/O Usage Is Almost 100%?
- Sharing
- Backup
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