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Those will only be visible and mountable from that particular VM, so if you want to share this storage with other VMs, you may want to expose it through NFS.

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Creating a new instance with extra storage disks

If you haven't created the instance yet, this is how you can provision extra volumes along with the creation of the instance itself

  1. Follow the steps described in Provision a new instance - web
  2. When configuring the volumes, create a new one clicking on the + sign and customise the label and size
     
  3. Complete the process until the new instance is up and running.

Adding a disk to existing instances

If you want to expand the storage of an existing instance with extra volumes, you can do so following these steps:

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Warning

Current to 2022, there is a bug in Morpheus such that if the disk creation fails (e.g. due to hitting a quota limit), no error is reported.  You can check in the instance details → storage if the disk is there before proceeding.

Configuring the extra volume in the instance

That extra volume is not mounted (or even formatted) by default. You must log in to your VM and then follow the instructions below:

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