Create and mount volumes

10/20/2023 Contributors

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After you set up your working environment, you can create Azure NetApp Files accounts, capacity pools, and volumes.

Create volumes

You can create NFS or SMB volumes in a new or existing Azure NetApp Files account.

A BlueXP feature called "templates" enables you to create volumes that are optimized for the workload requirements for certain applications; such as databases or streaming services. If your organization has created volume templates that you should use, follow these steps.

Before you begin

If you want to use SMB, you must have set up DNS and Active Directory.
When planning to create an SMB volume, you must have a Windows Active Directory server available to which you can connect. You will enter this information when creating the volume.

Steps

Open the Azure NetApp Files working environment.
Click Add New Volume.
Provide the required information on each page:
- Azure NetApp Files Account: Choose an existing Azure NetApp Files account or create a new account. When creating a new account you can also choose the Resource Group that you want to use.
- Capacity Pool: Select an existing capacity pool or create a new capacity pool.
  
  If you create a new capacity pool, you need to specify a size and select a service level.
  
  The minimum size for the capacity pool is 4 TB. You can specify a size in multiples of 4 TB.
- Details & Tags: Enter a volume name and size, the VNet and subnet where the volume should reside, and optionally specify tags for the volume.
- Protocol: Choose the NFS or SMB protocol and enter the required information.
  
  Here's an example of details for NFS.
  
  Here's an example of details for SMB. You'll need to provide Active Directory information on the next page when you set up your first SMB volume.
If you want this volume to be created based on a snapshot of an existing volume, select the snapshot from the Snapshot Name drop-down list.
Click Add Volume.

Result

The new volume is added to the working environment.

Continue with mounting the cloud volume.

Create volumes from templates

If your organization has created Azure NetApp Files volume templates so that you can deploy volumes that are optimized for the workload requirements for certain applications, follow the steps in this section.

The template should make your job easier because certain volume parameters will already be defined in the template, such as capacity pool, size, protocol, VNet and subnet where the volume should reside, and more. When a parameter is already predefined, you can just skip to the next volume parameter.

Steps

On the Canvas page, click the Azure NetApp Files working environment on which you want to provision a volume.
Click > Add Volume From Template.
In the Select Template page, select the template that you want to use to create the volume and click Next.

The Define Parameters page is displayed.

Note: You can click the checkbox Show read-only parameters to show all the fields that have been locked by the template if you want to see the values for those parameters. By default these predefined fields are hidden and only the fields you need to complete are shown.
Add values for all of the parameters that are not hard-coded from the template. See create volumes for details about all the parameters you need to complete to deploy an Azure NetApp Files volume.
Click Run Template after you have defined all the parameters needed for this volume.