We will be checking about oci block storage in this post. What is block storage and what are the features of block storage
What is Block Volume
- OCI Block storage is the NVMe SSD based storage that you can attach to any compute instance that was launched
- It can hold applications, installations, or even software binaries on it
- You can create, attach, connect, and move volumes, as needed, to meet your storage and application requirements
- Persistent and Durable Storage
Two types
Block volume: Detachable and scalable
Boot volume: Detachable and scalable
Type of Attachments
- ISCSI : TCP/IP attachments: It utilizes the internal storage stack in the guest OS and network hardware virtualization to access block volumes. Hypervisor is not involved in the iSCSI attachment process
- Paravirtualized: It is a light virtualization technique where a VM utilizes hypervisor APIs to access remote storage directly as if it were a local device
Features
- Can be read-only Sharable, read write & read/write shareable
- Are available to single AD only
- Have OCID
- AES 256 Encryption for data at rest and it is available with backup also
- Sizes from 50 G to 32 T.
- Performance varies depending on the size
- Volume per instance: 32
Performance Level
- Lower Cost: NO VPU (Volume Performance Unit)
- Balanced
- Higher Performance
- Ultra High Performance
- Dynamic Performance Scaling with Autotuning(New Feature)
Backup
Backups are done using point-in-time snapshots; therefore, while the backup is being performed in the background asynchronously, your applications can continue to access your data without any interruption or performance impact
- Manual and Policy based backup
- Policy-based are bronze, silver, and gold
- Backup can be incremental and Full
- It is safe to stop the application and then start the backup.
- Backup are stored in Object storage
- It can be restored as new volumes to any Availability Domain within the same region (for multi-AD regions)
- Backup can be restored cross region also
Cloning
- A cloned volume is a point-in-time direct disk-to-disk deep copy of the source volume, so all
- the data that is in the source volume when the clone is created is copied to the clone volume.
- Any subsequent changes to the data on the source volume are not copied to the clone. Since the clone is a copy of the source volume it will be the same size as the source volume unless you specify a larger volume size when you create the clone
- The clone operation occurs immediately, and you can attach and use the cloned volume as a regular volume as soon as the state changes to available. At this point, the volume data is being copied in the background and can take up to thirty minutes depending on the size of the volume.
Volume Group
- OCI Block storage service provides you with the facility to group together multiple volumes in a volume group.
- A volume group can include both types of volumes, boot volumes, which are the system disks for your Compute instances, and block volumes for your data storage.
- We can volume groups to backups and clones that are point-in-time and crash-consistent
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OCI block storage : OCI Block storage is the NVMe SSD based storage that you can attach to any compute instance that was launched. Check out about backup,cloning
https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/Concepts/blockvolumebackups.htm
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