Applications

The command provides a diverse set of subcommands that allow you to utilize the physical storage. To use the physical storage, you need to create application instances, which act as abstract containers for logical volumes. Therefore, before creating a logical volume, you must have at least one application instance.

The set of commands allows you to:

• Create, edit, delete, or list application instances.
• Create, edit, delete, and list volumes.
• Edit consistency-group (CG). A CG is a collection of volumes that form a single storage entity (sharing the same data retention: primary data and redundant data).
• Take snapshots of a volume or a file; delete, list, and restore snapshots.

• Share the path or files of a volume by adding it to SMB or NFS share groups; edit or delete share groups.
• Create, edit, list, and mount file systems; display and discard (trim) unused blocks on a mounted file system.
• Generate an encryption key. You can use this key later to encrypt a consistency group.
• Create, edit, list, and delete object-based storage on a volume; encrypt and control access to object-based storage.
• Map volumes that can use as a local file system using iSCSi, Fiber Channel (FC), or NVMeOF protocols.