- Documentation
- OpenShift Dedicated
- Virtualization
- Storage
- Storage configuration overview history bug_report picture_as_pdf
- About
- Introduction to OpenShift Dedicated
- Architecture
- Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager
- Planning your environment
- Getting started
- Installing, accessing, and deleting OpenShift Dedicated clusters
- Support
- Web console
- CLI tools
- Cluster administration
- Security and compliance
- Authentication and authorization
- Authentication and authorization overview
- Understanding authentication
- Managing user-owned OAuth access tokens
- Configuring identity providers
- Managing administration roles and users
- Using RBAC to define and apply permissions
- Understanding and creating service accounts
- Using service accounts in applications
- Using a service account as an OAuth client
- Scoping tokens
- Using bound service account tokens
- Managing security context constraints
- Understanding and managing pod security admission
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Upgrading
- CI/CD
- Images
- Overview of images
- Overview of the Cluster Samples Operator
- Using the Cluster Samples Operator with an alternate registry
- Creating images
- Managing images
- Managing image streams
- Using image streams with Kubernetes resources
- Triggering updates on image stream changes
- Image configuration resources
- Using templates
- Using Ruby on Rails
- Using images
- Add-on services
- Storage
- Registry
- Operators
- Operators overview
- Understanding Operators
- User tasks
- Administrator tasks
- Developing Operators
- About the Operator SDK
- Installing the Operator SDK CLI
- Go-based Operators
- Ansible-based Operators
- Helm-based Operators
- Defining cluster service versions (CSVs)
- Working with bundle images
- Complying with pod security admission
- Validating Operators using the scorecard
- Validating Operator bundles
- High-availability or single-node cluster detection and support
- Configuring built-in monitoring with Prometheus
- Configuring leader election
- Object pruning utility
- Migrating package manifest projects to bundle format
- Operator SDK CLI reference
- Migrating to Operator SDK v0.1.0
- Networking
- Building applications
- Building applications overview
- Projects
- Creating applications
- Viewing application composition using the Topology view
- Connecting applications to services
- Service Binding Operator release notes
- Understanding Service Binding Operator
- Installing Service Binding Operator
- Getting started with service binding
- Exposing binding data from a service
- Projecting binding data
- Binding workloads using Service Binding Operator
- Connecting an application to a service using the Developer perspective
- Working with Helm charts
- Deployments
- Quotas
- Using config maps with applications
- Monitoring project and application metrics using the Developer perspective
- Monitoring application health
- Editing applications
- Working with quotas
- Pruning objects to reclaim resources
- Idling applications
- Deleting applications
- Using the Red Hat Marketplace
- Nodes
- Overview of nodes
- Working with pods
- Automatically scaling pods with the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Release notes
- Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator overview
- Installing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Understanding the custom metrics autoscaler triggers
- Understanding the custom metrics autoscaler trigger authentications
- Pausing the custom metrics autoscaler
- Gathering audit logs
- Gathering debugging data
- Viewing Operator metrics
- Understanding how to add custom metrics autoscalers
- Removing the Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Placing pods relative to other pods using pod affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Controlling pod placement on nodes using node affinity rules
- Placing pods onto overcommited nodes
- Controlling pod placement using node taints
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Controlling pod placement using pod topology spread constraints
- Using Jobs and DaemonSets
- Working with nodes
- Working with containers
- Understanding containers
- Using Init Containers to perform tasks before a pod is deployed
- Using volumes to persist container data
- Mapping volumes using projected volumes
- Allowing containers to consume API objects
- Copying files to or from a container
- Executing remote commands in a container
- Using port forwarding to access applications in a container
- Working with clusters
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Monitoring overview
- Accessing monitoring for user-defined projects
- Configuring the monitoring stack
- Disabling monitoring for user-defined projects
- Enabling alert routing for user-defined projects
- Managing metrics
- Managing alerts
- Reviewing monitoring dashboards
- Accessing third-party monitoring APIs
- Troubleshooting monitoring issues
- Config map reference for the Cluster Monitoring Operator
- Logging
- Release notes
- Support
- Troubleshooting logging
- About Logging
- Installing Logging
- Updating Logging
- Visualizing logs
- Accessing the service logs
- Configuring your Logging deployment
- Log collection and forwarding
- Log storage
- Logging alerts
- Performance and reliability tuning
- Scheduling resources
- Uninstalling Logging
- Exported fields
- API reference
- Glossary
- Monitoring
- Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x
- About OpenShift Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x release notes
- Service Mesh architecture
- Service Mesh deployment models
- Service Mesh and Istio differences
- Preparing to install Service Mesh
- Installing the Operators
- Creating the ServiceMeshControlPlane
- Adding workloads to a service mesh
- Enabling sidecar injection
- Upgrading Service Mesh
- Managing users and profiles
- Security
- Traffic management
- Metrics, logs, and traces
- Performance and scalability
- Deploying to production
- Federation
- Extensions
- 3scale WebAssembly for 2.1
- 3scale Istio adapter for 2.0
- Troubleshooting Service Mesh
- Control plane configuration reference
- Kiali configuration reference
- Jaeger configuration reference
- Uninstalling Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 2.x
- Serverless
- Virtualization
- About
- Getting started
- Installing
- Post-installation configuration
- Updating
- Virtual machines
- Creating VMs from Red Hat images
- Creating VMs from custom images
- Connecting to VM consoles
- Configuring SSH access to VMs
- Editing virtual machines
- Editing boot order
- Deleting virtual machines
- Exporting virtual machines
- Managing virtual machine instances
- Controlling virtual machine states
- Using virtual Trusted Platform Module devices
- Managing virtual machines with OpenShift Pipelines
- Advanced virtual machine management
- Working with resource quotas for virtual machines
- Specifying nodes for virtual machines
- Configuring certificate rotation
- Configuring the default CPU model
- UEFI mode for virtual machines
- Configuring PXE booting for virtual machines
- Scheduling virtual machines
- About high availability for virtual machines
- VM disks
- Networking
- Networking configuration overview
- Connecting a VM to the default pod network
- Exposing a VM by using a service
- Connecting a VM to an OVN-Kubernetes secondary network
- Connecting a VM to a service mesh
- Configuring a dedicated network for live migration
- Configuring and viewing IP addresses
- Managing MAC address pools for network interfaces
- Storage
- Storage configuration overview
- Configuring storage profiles
- Managing automatic boot source updates
- Reserving PVC space for file system overhead
- Configuring local storage by using HPP
- Enabling user permissions to clone data volumes across namespaces
- Configuring CDI to override CPU and memory quotas
- Preparing CDI scratch space
- Using preallocation for data volumes
- Managing data volume annotations
- Live migration
- Nodes
- Monitoring
- Support
- Backup and restore
Storage configuration overview
You can configure a default storage class, storage profiles, Containerized Data Importer (CDI), data volumes, and automatic boot source updates.
Storage
The following storage configuration tasks are mandatory:
- Configure storage profiles
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You must configure storage profiles if your storage provider is not recognized by CDI. A storage profile provides recommended storage settings based on the associated storage class.
The following storage configuration tasks are optional:
- Reserve additional PVC space for file system overhead
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By default, 5.5% of a file system PVC is reserved for overhead, reducing the space available for VM disks by that amount. You can configure a different overhead value.
- Configure local storage by using the hostpath provisioner
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You can configure local storage for virtual machines by using the hostpath provisioner (HPP). When you install the OpenShift Virtualization Operator, the HPP Operator is automatically installed.
- Configure user permissions to clone data volumes between namespaces
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You can configure RBAC roles to enable users to clone data volumes between namespaces.
Containerized Data Importer
You can perform the following Containerized Data Importer (CDI) configuration tasks:
- Override the resource request limits of a namespace
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You can configure CDI to import, upload, and clone VM disks into namespaces that are subject to CPU and memory resource restrictions.
- Configure CDI scratch space
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CDI requires scratch space (temporary storage) to complete some operations, such as importing and uploading VM images. During this process, CDI provisions a scratch space PVC equal to the size of the PVC backing the destination data volume (DV).
Data volumes
You can perform the following data volume configuration tasks:
- Enable preallocation for data volumes
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CDI can preallocate disk space to improve write performance when creating data volumes. You can enable preallocation for specific data volumes.
- Manage data volume annotations
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Data volume annotations allow you to manage pod behavior. You can add one or more annotations to a data volume, which then propagates to the created importer pods.
Boot source updates
You can perform the following boot source update configuration task:
- Manage automatic boot source updates
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Boot sources can make virtual machine (VM) creation more accessible and efficient for users. If automatic boot source updates are enabled, CDI imports, polls, and updates the images so that they are ready to be cloned for new VMs. By default, CDI automatically updates Red Hat boot sources. You can enable automatic updates for custom boot sources.