Attach LUN to VM Instances

Attach LUN via FC Storage Page

In the navigation pane of the ZStack Private Cloud UI, choose Hardware > SAN Storage. On the FC Storage tab page of the SAN Storage page, check FC storages and LUNs on the FC storages, as shown in FC Storage.

After you add a host, if you deploy an FC storage on the host, ZStack will automatically detect and display the host to the FC storage page. Click Sync Device Info to manually refresh the list information.

To select an LUN, choose Actions > Attach VM Instance. On the displayed Select VM Instance page, select VM instances that you need to attach, and click OK to complete attaching an LUN, as shown in Attach VM Instance.

After you attach the LUN to the VM instances, you can choose Actions > Detach VM Instance to detach the LUN from the VM instances.

Attach LUN via iSCSI Server Page

In the navigation pane of the ZStack Private Cloud UI, choose Hardware > SAN Storage. On the iSCSI Storage tab page, click on the iSCSI qualified name (IQN) to enter the Disk tab page, as shown in Disk Tab Page.

On the Disk tab page, select an iSCSI LUN, and choose Actions > Attach LUN to VM Instance. On the displayed Select VM Instance page, select VM instances that you need to attach, and click OK to complete attaching the iSCSI LUN.

After you attach the iSCSI LUN to the VM instances, you can choose Actions > Detach LUN from VM Instance to detach the iSCSI LUN from the VM instances.

Attach LUN via VM Details Page

In the navigation pane of the ZStack Private Cloud UI, choose Resource Pool > VM Instance to enter the VM Instance page. You can select a VM instance that needs to attach an LUN, and then select the Configurations tab page, as shown in Configurations Page.

On the Block Device tab page, choose Actions > Attach. On the Select LUN page, select an LUN which will be passed through to the VM instance, and click OK to attach the LUN to the VM instance, as shown in Select LUN.

After you attach the LUN to the VM instance, you can choose Actions > Detach to detach the LUN from the VM instance.

Attach LUN via Host Details Page

In the navigation pane of the ZStack Private Cloud UI, choose Hardware > Host to enter the Host page. You can select a host that has attached an LUN, and then select the Block Device tab page, as shown in Block Device Page.

On the Block Device tab page, choose Actions > Attach LUN to VM Instance. On the Select VM Instance page, select VM instance to which you need to attach an LUIN, and click OK to complete attaching the LUN to the VM instances, as shown in Attach LUN to VM Instance.

After you attach the LUN to the VM instances, you can choose Actions > Detach LUN from VM Instance to detach the LUN from the VM instances.

So far, we have introduced the passthrough feature of LUNs.