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What is Origin Cloud Storage?

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Storage gives your instances durable block volumes and point-in-time snapshots. Learn the parts, how they relate to images, and how to access them.

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Origin Cloud Storage provides durable block volumes for your instances and point-in-time snapshots of those volumes. A volume is a disk that keeps its data independently of any instance. A snapshot captures a volume's data so you can create new volumes or images from it. Most instances get their volumes automatically from their image at launch; this guide covers volumes and snapshots as resources you manage yourself.

How the parts fit together

Data moves between volumes, snapshots and images like this:

  • Import: a disk image at a URL becomes a volume.
  • Create snapshot: a volume becomes a snapshot.
  • Create volume: a snapshot becomes a new volume.
  • Create image: a snapshot becomes an image.
  • Launch: an image becomes a new instance's volume.

A snapshot becomes usable as a source only after you protect it. For the rules, see Snapshot states.

Features

  • Volumes: Durable block disks that you create, import, resize, attach to instances, and delete. See Volumes.
  • Storage classes: Performance tiers for volumes. gp1 (general purpose, SSD-backed) is the tier you can select. See Storage classes.
  • Snapshots: Point-in-time, crash-consistent copies of a volume, used as the source for new volumes and images. See Snapshots.
  • Disk image import: Create a volume whose initial content is a disk image you download from an HTTP(S) URL. See Import a disk image as a volume.

Ways to access Storage

  • origin CLI: The origin storage command group covers volumes, storage classes, and snapshots. See origin storage commands.
  • GraphQL API: Volumes, snapshots, and storage classes live under the pvs namespace of the API. See Storage reference.
  • Origin Cloud console: The web interface at console.origincloud.eu, for working with your volumes and snapshots in a browser. These docs cover the CLI and the API.

For installing the CLI and authenticating, see Access Origin Cloud.

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