Administering storage resources

You can discover and manage storage and view various details such as status, size, type, and usage and allocation of storage.

About this task

Cloud Pak System Software supports two types of storage resources:
RAW
A volume that has no partitions or formatting on it and can be accessed by a virtual machine directly.
Block storage
A volume that has no partitions or formatting on it and can be accessed by a virtual machine directly. Existing unattached block storage volumes can be used when deploying new virtual systems and virtual applications.
The storage administrator and PowerVC administrator should work together to provision storage to the Power® Virtualization Center (PowerVC) environment managed by the Cloud Pak System Software product. The storage administrator must create storage pools, and optionally create storage volumes which will be discovered by Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) and the Cloud Pak System Software product. You can also use the Cloud Pak System Software console interface to create storage volumes.