Objective

Enterprise File Storage services can be managed via the OVHcloud API or in the OVHcloud Console.

This guide explains how to manage Enterprise File Storage volumes and snapshots in the OVHcloud Console.

Requirements

• An Enterprise File Storage service in your OVHcloud account. The service can be ordered from the product page or from the OVHcloud Console.

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OVHcloud Console Access

• Direct link: Enterprise File Storage
• Navigation path: Bare Metal Cloud > Storage > Enterprise File Storage

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Instructions

Select your service from the list.

The Overview tab displays the General information and the Service configuration of your service (with a shortcut to create a volume), its Network configuration, its Subscription details and its Tags.

Managing volumes

Switch to the Volumes tab. The table lists all volumes you have created for the selected service. Click on a volume name to open its management page.

To perform an action on a volume, tick the box of its row, then open the Actions (1) menu above the table:

• Edit volume: Opens the "Information" tab of the volume.
• Resize volume: Opens a window in which you enter the New size of the volume, then click Resize.
• Manage snapshots: Opens the "Snapshots" tab of the volume.
• Manage IP Access (ACL): Opens the "ACL" tab of the volume.
• Replicate volumes: Replicates the selected volumes to another Enterprise File Storage service.
• Delete volume: Deletes this volume after you confirm the action in the window that opens.

Creating a volume

Click on the button Create a volume. In the window that opens, you can enter a Name and a Description (optional), choose the Protocol, optionally select a snapshot in Create from a snapshot, set the Size and, optionally, the Mount path. Click Create a volume to confirm.

Modifying a volume

Click on a volume name in the table to open the management page of this volume.

The Information tab displays your volume's details (Volume, Storage and Usage overview sections) and the Volume connection section, with the mount path and the steps to connect to the volume.

From this tab, you can also change the volume's name (Edit name) and description (Edit description), resize it (Resize the volume) and change its snapshot reserve (Edit snapshot reserve).

The NFS connections tab lists the NFS connections to the volume, and the Performance tab displays its performance metrics.

Deleting a volume

You can delete a volume by clicking Delete volume in its Information tab, or by ticking its box in the Volumes tab and selecting Delete volume in the Actions (1) menu.

Confirm the deletion by typing DELETE in the confirmation field, then click the Delete volume button.

Managing volume snapshots

The Snapshots tab of a volume lists all the snapshots that have been created for it. You can filter them by Type.

In the Snapshot policy section of this tab, you can view the Snapshot Policy applied to the volume and its rules (View the rules).

To apply another policy, click Manage snapshot policy, select a policy in Available policies, then click Apply policy. The default policy cannot be selected manually.

In order to configure your Snapshot Policies, navigate back to your service and open the Policies tab.

Creating a snapshot

To create a new manual snapshot of the volume's current state, click Take a snapshot in the Snapshots tab (or in the Information tab).

In the window that opens, you can enter a Name and a Description for the snapshot (optional). Click Take a snapshot to start snapshot creation.

Modifying a snapshot

To change the name or description of a manual snapshot, click the ... button in its row, then click on Edit. In the window that opens, choose a new name and/or description, then click Confirm.

Deleting a snapshot

A snapshot can be deleted by clicking the ... button on its row inside the Snapshots tab, then selecting Delete. In the window that opens, click Delete snapshot.

Restore a volume using one of its snapshots

You can restore a volume using its most recent snapshot by clicking Restore last snapshot in the Snapshots tab. In the window that opens, type the name of the volume to confirm, then click Restore last snapshot. If the most recent snapshot is an automatic one, it is first saved as a manual snapshot before the volume is restored.

Holding automatic snapshots

An Automatic snapshot, created by a Snapshot Policy can be held by clicking the ... button on its row in the Snapshots tab and then selecting Save.

After the holding operation is complete, the snapshot type will change to manual and it will no longer be rotated by a Snapshot Policy.

You can also create a new volume from a manual snapshot: click the ... button on its row, then Create a volume.

Managing volume ACLs

Access control to volumes works via IP address restrictions. Since none are configured by default, the first step with new volumes is to define IP addresses or ranges from which access will be authorised.

Open the ACL tab of the volume and click Add a rule. In the Add an ACL rule panel, enter an IP address or an address block (CIDR), select the Access level (Read only or Read/Write), then click Add.

To remove a volume access, click the ... button on its row, then Delete rule.

Managing snapshot policies

Adding policies allows you to schedule the creation of snapshots for all of your volumes.

Switch to the Policies tab of your service. The table lists all policies created for the selected service.

A default policy is already in place which cannot be altered. To add your own, click on the button Create a policy.

On the Create a snapshot policy page, enter a Policy name and a Policy description. Then click Add a rule to add one or more rules to the policy.

Fill in the fields to specify the Minute(s), Hour(s), Day(s) of the month, Month(s) and Day(s) of the week of the snapshot creation, the Prefix needed for naming the snapshots, and the number of Copies to keep. By expanding the Example section you can view two sets of policy rules with an explanation of their outcome.

Click on the confirmation icon of the row to add the new rule. Once all rules are added, click on Create a policy.

Select a volume and go to its Snapshots tab in order to apply your policies.

To remove a policy, click the ... button on its row, then Delete.

First steps

If you are new to using Enterprise File Storage, you can follow this sequence of steps to get started:

• Create a volume
• Configure access control
• Configure snapshot policies (optional)
• Apply snapshot policies to the volume (optional)
• Access snapshots (optional)
• Connect to your volume by following the instructions in the "Volume connection" section of the "Information" tab
• Learn how to use Enterprise File Storage via API by consulting our guides (optional)

Go further

API Quickstart

Managing volumes via API

Managing volume ACLs via API

Managing volume snapshots via API

Enterprise File Storage - FAQ

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