Continuing in the Amazon Web Services console, in the left pane under
, click .Click
, then specify the volume settings:
Volume Setting |
Sample Value |
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Specify 100 GiB (gibibyte, the IEC standard unit). |
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From the drop-down menu, select .IMPORTANT:Use the same same value that you specified for the virtual machine. |
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Select . |
Click
, then wait for the volume to be created.This might take several minutes. The time varies according to the size of the EBS volume. The volume appears in the list with a status of
(yellow icon). Click periodically until the volume status shows a status of (blue icon)Select the check box next to the newly created volume.
Click
.Select the openSUSE Linux VM (the currently running AMI instance).
In
, specify the device path.The default path is /dev/sdf. You can use the default path if it is the first volume you are attaching to the VM. If you add more EBS volumes, specify a different path for each one.
Click
.The EBS volume is attached to the openSUSE Linux VM (the running AMI instance). The status changes to
(green icon).Continue with Section A.7, Opening Ports for iSCSI Communications.