8.5. Add Primary Storage

Next you will need to tell the system about the primary and secondary storage devices that are available. If you intend to use only local disk for your installation you can skip to Secondary Storage.

Note

Local storage only works with Citrix XenServer.

Important

Primary storage cannot be added until a Host has been added to the Cluster.

Important

If you do not provision shared storage for primary storage, you will not be able to create additional volumes (via Storage > Volumes > Add Volume). Also, if you do not provision shared primary storage, you must have set system.vm.local.storage.required to true in the first part of this section or else you will not be able to start VMs.

In the left hand column menu, navigate to your newly created cluster. (System -> Physical Resources -> Zone -> Pod -> Cluster.) Then choose "Add Primary Storage" button from the top menu of the main window..
Provide the following information in the Add Primary Storage dialog.
- Cluster: The Cluster for the storage device.
- Name: The name of the storage device.
- Protocol: Choose NFS
- Server: The IP address or DNS name of the storage device.
- Path: This is the exported path from the server
- Tags. The comma-separated list of tags for this storage device. It should be an equivalent set or superset of the tags on your disk offerings. It is an optional field and may be left blank.

You can add multiple primary storage servers. At least one is required