Creating a Volume

With the Lightbits software installed and the Lightbits management services running, you can create a volume and connect that volume to your application servers.

To create a volume, enter the lbcli create volume command.

Sample Command

$ lbcli create volume --name vol_1 --acl=test --size="10 Gib" --replica-count=2 --project-name=default

In this command, the JWT is not stored in the lbcli configuration file:

$ lbcli -J $JWT create volume --size="10 Gib" --name=vol_1 --acl="test" --replica-count=2 --project-name=default

Sample Output

Name  UUID                                  State     Size     Replicas

vol_1 82f6a469-5ccd-449b-8f43-acc53cb887a7  Creating  10 GiB   2

This example command creates a 10 GB volume with two replicas, and a simple “test” string is used as the Access Control List (ACL) value. This ACL string is used for the application client when the nvme connect command is entered to connect to this new volume over NVMe/TCP.