Mounting a physical disk

You need to confirm the deployment mode of the ACOS cluster before mounting the physical disk. Different deployment modes allow mounting different physical disks:

• When the ACOS cluster adopts the non-tiered storage, only SSDs are allowed to be mounted.

• When the ACOS cluster adopts the tiered storage, and the cache and data share all physical disks:

  • When the node is configured with all-NVMe SSD or all-flash, only NVMe SSDs are allowed to be mounted.
  • When the node is configured with all-SATA SSD or SAS SSD all-flash, only SATA SSDs or SAS SSDs can be mounted.

• When the ACOS cluster adopts the tiered storage and the cache disk and data disk are deployed independently, both SSDs and HDDs can be mounted, but HDDs can only be mounted as data disks.

Risk warning

Mounting a physical disk will clear all data on that physical disk. Operate with caution.

Procedure

1. On the AOC main page, select an organization, data center, cluster, or host from the left sidebar to access the corresponding page. On this page, select All > Physical disk to access the Physical disk page, where the physical disk list displays the number of healthy and mountable physical disks within this range.

2. Select the physical disk to be mounted. You can either:

   • Click View on the right of the x healthy physical disks can be mounted hint. All physical disks that can be mounted in the range will be displayed. Select one or more physical disks to be mounted in the same cluster, and then click Mount.

   • In the physical disk list, select one or more physical disks in the same cluster that are in the Healthy disk · Ready to mount status, and click Mount.

3. In the pop-up Mount disk dialog box, confirm the physical disk to be mounted and its destination cluster and host, select the Use of the physical disk, and then click Mount x physical disks.