Supported Operations

  • Create, delete, attach, and detach volumes
  • Create, list, and delete volume snapshots
  • Create a volume from a snapshot
  • Copy an image to a volume
  • Copy a volume to an image
  • Clone a volume
  • Extend a volume
  • Migrate a volume from one backend to another
  • Retype a volume (change attributes like QoS, extra specs, etc)
  • Manage and unmanage a volume
  • Manage and unmanage a snapshot
  • Replicate host volumes (sync and periodic)
  • Failover host volumes
  • Failback host volumes
  • Peer Persistence (Classic PP only)
  • Retype a replicated volume
  • Create, delete, update, snapshot, and clone generic volume groups
  • Create and delete generic volume group snapshots
  • Create a generic volume group from a group snapshot or another group
  • Volume Compression
  • Group Replication with More Granularity (Tiramisu)
  • Attach a volume to multiple servers simultaneously (multiattach)

The commands to perform above operations are mentioned in Best Practices Guide