Elastic Volume Service
Elastic Volume Service (EVS) offers scalable block storage with high reliability, high performance, and abundant specifications for cloud servers. EVS disks can be used for various scenarios to meet diverse business requirements.
Progressive Knowledge
EVS knowledge for users from beginner level to expert level
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Understand
EVS disk types and features are provided to help you quickly select your desired disk type to match services. This facilitates rapid service migration to HUAWEI CLOUD.
Service Overview
Service Features
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Start
After purchasing a data disk, you must attach the disk to a server and initialize (format) it before using it.
Attaching an EVS Disk
Introduction to Data Disk Initialization
Introduction to Data Disk Initialization
Introduction to Data Disk Initialization
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Deploy
EVS disk performance can be improved in many ways, like cleaning up disks or creating RAID arrays.
Best Practices
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Purchase
EVS billing modes and configurations are available for you to select. You can choose different specifications for disks and use them in diverse application scenarios. In addition, you can use the price calculator to easily estimate your disk fee.
Price Details
Purchasing an EVS Disk
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Be a Power User
You can expand, detach, or delete your disk any time based on service requirements; easily manage your disks and snapshots; and view monitoring metrics in real time to learn about the health status of your disks.
Common Operations
Disk Capacity Expansion
Managing Snapshots
Managing an EVS Disk
Viewing an EVS Disk
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APIs
Abundant EVS APIs and calling examples help you manage EVS resources, including disks, snapshots, tags, and transfers.
API Reference
FAQs
Learn more about common issues and solutions.
Typical Cases
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Can I Attach a Disk to Multiple Servers?
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How Can I Test My Disk Performance?
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Why I Cannot View the Attached Data Disk on the Server?
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How Can I Use a Newly Purchased Disk?
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Why My Disk Cannot Be Attached to a Server?
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How Can I Add a Data Disk (Disk (D:) or dev/vdb1) to a Server?
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How Can I Delete or Unsubscribe a Yearly/Monthly-Billed Disk?
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Can I Change the Sharing Attribute from Shared to Non-shared or the Disk Type from Common I/O to Ultra-high I/O for a Disk?
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Why My Disk Capacity Remains Unchanged on the Server After Capacity Expansion?
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Do I Need to Restart the Server After Expanding the Disk Capacity?
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Can I Attach a Disk to a Server That Belongs to Another AZ?
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Do I Must Deploy a Cluster for Using Shared Disks?
General FAQs
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What Should I Do If an Error Occurs on My EVS Disk?
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Why Some of My EVS Disks Do Not Have WWN Information?
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Can I Change the AZ of My Disk?
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Can I Recover My Disk Data If the Disk Is Unsubscribed, Deleted by Mistake, or Released After the Retention Period?
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Can a Disk Be Used Separately?
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How Can I Migrate My Disk Data from AZ 1 to AZ 2 or from Region A to Region B?
Disk Attachment FAQs
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Can I Attach a Disk to a Server That Belongs to Another AZ?
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How Can I Add a Data Disk (Disk (D:) or dev/vdb1) to a Server?
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Can I Attach a Yearly/Monthly-Billed Disk to Another Server?
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Can I Attach Disks of Different Types to the Same Server?
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Can I Attach Non-Shared Disks to Other Mount Points or Servers?
Disk Deletion FAQs
Capacity Expansion FAQs
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Can I Reduce the Disk Capacity?
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Will My Disk Data Be Lost After I Expand the Disk Capacity?
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Do I Need to Detach the Disk from Its Server Before Expanding the Disk Capacity?
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What Should I Do If My Disk Capacity Exceeds 2 TB After Expansion?
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Can I Use Backups or Snapshots Created Before Capacity Expansion to Restore Data on Expanded Disks?
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How Can I Add the Additional Space to a New Partition (Volume (E:) or Partition dev/vdb2)?
Disk Detachment FAQs
Capacity FAQs
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What Is the Maximum Capacity Supported for System Disk and Data Disk Respectively?
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What Should I Do If My Disk Space Is Insufficient?
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What Should I Do When My Disk Capacity That Exceeds 2 TB Cannot Be Displayed After I Initialize It Using fdisk?
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How Do I View the Space on My Disk?
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Can I Split, Merge, or Transfer the Capacity of My Disk?
Snapshot FAQs