Attaching a Block Volume to a Roving Edge Infrastructure Device

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. Open the navigation menu and select Compute > Instances. The Instances page appears. All instances are listed in tabular form.

  2. Select a State from the list to limit the instances displayed to that state.

  3. Click the instance to which you want to attach a block volume under Instances.

  4. Click Attached Block Volumes in the lower left corner. The Attached Block Volumes page appears. All attached block volumes are listed in tabular form.

  5. Click Attach Block Volume. The Attach Block Volume dialog box appears. By default, the attached block volume type is Paravirtualized.

  6. Choose the volume selection option:

     • Select Volume: Select the volume from the Block Volume list.

     • Enter Volume OCID: Enter the OCID into the Block Volume OCID box.

  7. Select a Device Path: Choose one from the list of device paths. For example:

     /dev/oracleoci/oraclevdb

  8. Select the access type:

     • Read/Write

     • Read/Write - Shareable

     • Read-only

  9. Click Attach.

     The block volume appears in the Attached Block Volume page.

• Use the oci compute volume-attachment attach command and required parameters to attach a block volume to a compute instance on your Roving Edge Infrastructure devices:

  oci compute volume-attachment attach --instance-id instance_ocid --type paravirtualized --volume-id volume_ocid --device device [OPTIONS]

  where device might be /dev/oracleoci/oraclevdb.

  Refer to your Roving Edge Infrastructure device's CLI help for a list of parameters available for this command. See Accessing Command Line Interface Help.

  For CLI setup information on your Roving Edge Infrastructure device, see Using the Command Line Interface.

• Run the AttachVolume operation to attach a block volume to a compute instance on your Roving Edge Infrastructure devices.