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Management of your disks

The unused quota-disk can be used either for creating a new disk that can be attached to one of your servers or increasing an existing data disk.

Creation of a disk

Under the section "My account > Gandi Cloud VPS", click on the "Disk" tab as shown on the following screen.


Then use the button "Create a disk".


  • Name your disk
  • Define a size for that disk regarding the quota-disk left.
  • Submit

Note:

Your disk will be created within 10 min.

Attach a disk to an existing server

This can be done by two ways. :

1. Through the disk management

Under the section "My account > Gandi Cloud VPS" and click on the "Disk" tab :

Click on the icon represented by a chain corresponding to the disk that you wish to attach.

Then select the desired server on which the disk must be attached and submit.

Note:

The attach process can take up to 10 minutes.

Delete a disk

Before deleting a disk, check that it is not attached to a server. Otherwise, dettach the disk by clicking on the icon.

This following message will show up

You can see the operation in progress by going to your management disk screen. The operation will take few minutes.

Once the disk detached, it will be displayed as available. To delete it just click on the icon.

A message will show up telling you that the deletion is in progress.

Increase the size of your data disk

Important:

Increasing the size of a disk system of Gandi AI is not possible. Do not try otherwise the quota-disk used for that will be wasted as it won't be usable.

That is very easy. To do so, go to your data disk settings by clicking on the related to the concerned data disk.

On the next screen :

select the new disk size and submit.

Tip:

The operation will take up to 10 minutes.

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Last modified: 14 Sep 2011 at 15:28 by Karim E. (Gandi)