Create a Bootable Volume

A storage volume is a virtual disk that provides persistent block storage space for instances in Compute Classic. While creating a storage volume, you can associate it with a machine image and later use this storage volume as the boot disk for an instance. When you boot an instance from such a storage volume, any changes you make to the boot disk aren’t lost when the instance is deleted and re-created..

1. Sign in to the Compute Classic console.
2. Click the Storage tab.
3. Click Create Storage Volume.
4. Select or enter the required information:

   • Enter a name for the storage volume. Note this name. You’ll need it later to search for the storage volume on the Storage page.

     Pick a name that you can use later to quickly identify the key characteristics of the storage volume. For example, consider a name such as boot-OL66-20G for a bootable storage volume with an Oracle Linux 6.6 machine image on a 20-GB disk).

   • Select a machine image in the Boot Image field.

     If you select a machine image with a large disk size, it may take a while for the storage volume to be created.

   • The size of the volume is set automatically based on the image you selected. Leave it as is, or enter a larger size.

   • Leave the other fields at the default values.
5. Click Create.

   The Storage page is displayed.

While the new storage volume is being created, the Status field for the storage volume shows Initializing.

When the storage volume is ready, the Status field changes to Online. You can then specify this storage volume as the boot disk while creating an instance.

To view details of the new storage volume, search for it using the name you noted earlier. From the menu, select View.