Red Hat Summit4.6. Adding Bricks to Volumes
- Click
Add Bricksto add bricks to your volume.A brick is the basic unit of storage, represented by an export directory on a server in the storage cluster. You can expand or shrink your cluster by adding new bricks or deleting existing bricks.
Figure 4.5. Add Bricks
- Enter the path for the brick and click OK.
- In the Allow Access From field, specify volume access control as a comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames.By default, an asterisk (*) is used as a wildcard to specify ranges of addresses such as IP addresses or hostnames. You need to use IP-based authentication for Gluster and NFS exports.
- Click OK to create the volume.The new volume is added and it appears on the tab.
You can reuse a brick by selecting
Allow bricks in root partition and reuse the bricks by clearing xattrs
You can create a storage domain using the optimized volume and manage it using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. See Red Hat Storage 3 Console Administration Guide for more information on managing volumes such as start, stop, expand, shrink, add and edit volume options.
