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Drives

Access the Drives from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.

View All Drives Charts in the Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Scroll down under Charts subsection.
  5. View drive types, formats, states, teams, projects and sizes as necessary.

View Basic Information About a Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to view basic information.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
  6. In the left panel, scroll down to the Basic Info subsection.
  7. View the drive owner, backup, creation date and ID.

View the VM of the Attached Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to view attached VM.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
  6. In the left panel, scroll down to the Drive attached to VMs subsection.
  7. View all VMs the drive is attached to.
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If the drive is not attached to any VMs, the subsection will display This drive is not attached to any VMs.

View Users Who Share the Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to view shared users.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
  6. In the left panel, scroll down to the Shared with users subsection.
  7. View all the users who share the drive.

View the Format, Mounting Options, Capacity and Attachment Type of a Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to view format, mounting, capacity and attachment type.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
  6. In the left panel, scroll down to the Specification.
  7. View the drive format, mounting options, capacity and attachment type.

View the Project and Team of an Attached Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to view basic information.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel.
  6. In the left panel, scroll down to the Basic Info.
  7. View the drive owner, backup, creation date and ID.

Create a New Drive​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Click the Create new drive button in the top panel.
  5. In the pop-up, enter the drive name, format, team, optional project, optional drive owner, realm, capacity and type.
  6. Click Create.

Import an External Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Click the Import external drive button in the top panel.
  5. In the pop-up, click Load file or paste manifest file produced by ticrypt-driveimport.
  6. Find the file in your local machine.
  7. Click Open to load the file.
  8. View drive name, OS, path, format, capacity, owner, realm and team.
  9. Click Import.

Create an External Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Click the Create external drive button in the top right panel.
  5. In the pop-up, enter the external drive user, name, capacity, realm, team, and optional project.
  6. Click Cut-and-past-config to copy the external drive configuration to the clipboard or click Download config to download the external drive configuration locally.
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External drives are not displayed in the drive list. Their creation action is in the logs.

Share a Drive with Other Users from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to share.
  5. Click the Share button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, enter the user names to share.
  7. Once added to the list, click Close.
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Drives may be shared once they are formatted and attached to a virtual machine upon creation.

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You must own the drive to be able to share it with other users.

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You can only share Read-write drive types with other users.

Give Full Drive Access to a User from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to give full access.
  5. Click the Share button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, find the shared user to give full access.
  7. Under the Mode subsection, select Full access.
  8. Click Close.
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Giving full drive access means the user can do anything with the data on the drive.

Give Read-Only Drive Access to a User from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to give read-only access.
  5. Click the Share button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, find the shared user to give read-only access.
  7. Under the Mode subsection, select Read-only.
  8. Click Close.

Remove Drive Access from a User from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to remove user access.
  5. Click the Share button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, find the shared user to remove access.
  7. Click the Delete button next to the user.
  8. Once done, click Close.
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You can remove multiple users' access from a drive using the same setup.

Edit a Drive’s Name in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive whose name you want to edit.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, under Name subsection, enter the new drive name.
  7. Click Update.

Edit a Drive’s Team in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to edit team.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, under Team subsection, enter the new team name.
  7. Click Update.

Set Up a Drive for Applications and Databases Storage from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to set up applications and databases storage.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, click Advanced Options.
  7. Under the No permission management subsection, select Enable.
  8. Click Update.

Set Up a Cache Strategy for a Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive for which you want to set up a cache strategy.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, click Advanced Options.
  7. In the Cache strategy subsection, select default, none, writethrough, writeback or directsync as necessary.
  8. Click Update.

Set Up an IO Strategy for a Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to set up IO strategy.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, click Advanced Options.
  7. In the IO strategy subsection, select default, threads, or native as necessary.
  8. Click Update.

Change Project in a Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive whose project you want to change.
  5. Click the Change project button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, select the project to tag the drive.
  7. Click Classify.

Forcefully Change Project in a Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive whose project you want to change.
  5. Click the Change project button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, tick Use my permission to override rules, re-tag resources with any visible project, regardless of current project relations.
  7. Select the project to tag the drive.
  8. Click Force change with admin privilege.
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Only users with admin or super-admin roles can perform this action.

Remove Project from a Drive in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the tagged drive from which you want to remove the project.
  5. Click the Change project button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, select No project (unlocked) to remove project from drive.
  7. Click Declassify.
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A declassified project unlocks the drive for all shared users, irrespective of their project membership.

Migrate Drive to a Different Libvirt Storage Pool from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to migrate.
  5. Click the Migrate Drive button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, select the new storage pool for migration.
  7. View the drive format, capacity, creation date, team, project, owner, and state.
  8. Click Migrate.

Bulk Email All Drive Users from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive for which you want to send a bulk email to users.
  5. In the left panel, click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
  6. Select Bulk Email.
  7. In the pop-up, click Copy to copy the emails or click Download to download the emails.
  8. Once done, click Close.

Transfer Ownership of a Drive to a Different User from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive whose ownership you want to transfer.
  5. In the left panel, click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
  6. Select Transfer Ownership.
  7. In the pop-up, select the user to transfer ownership.
  8. View drive format, capacity, creation date, team, project, owner and state.
  9. Click Transfer Ownership.

Unshare the Drive from Everyone Else from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive you want to unshare from everyone else.
  5. In the left panel, click the Open Full Menu button in the top right panel.
  6. Select Unshare from everyone else.

Delete a Drive from Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the Drives in the left panel.
  4. Select the drive to delete.
  5. Click the Open Full Menu button in the top center panel.
  6. Click Delete.
  7. In the prompt, enter the drive name to confirm the deletion.
  8. Click Delete.
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Deleting a drive is a permanent action, and all data on the drive will be lost.