Manage Existing Storage Pools

Using the Virtual machines page in the web console, Cockpit administrator can choose to activate, deactivate, or remove existing host storage pools as needed.

What Do You Need?

• The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.

  For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.

• The Cockpit-machines add-on application must be installed in the web console and the Oracle Linux virtualization packages must be installed and enabled on the host system.

  For more information, seeInstall Cockpit-Machines and Enable Virtualization.

• One or more storage pools must already exist on the host system.

Steps

Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to manage existing storage pools on the host.

1. In the navigation pane, click Virtual machines, and then on the Virtual machines page click Storage Pools.

   The Storage Pools page appears.

2. In Storage Pools page, navigate to the storage pool of interest and perform any of the following:

   • View storage pool properties: Click the > icon to view the storage pool properties.
   • Activate a deactivated storage pool: Click Activate.
   • Deactivate an activated storage pool: Click Deactivate.
   • Remove a storage pool: Select Delete from the actions menu [⋮].