Lab 5: To Manage Elastic Block Store(EBS)

                                               Lab 5: To Manage Elastic Block Store(EBS)

Objective  : To Configure and use AWS EBS  service

Topology: 

Pre-Requistes:

user Should have AWS account ,or IAM user With EC2 full Access

User Should have basic knowledge of managing partitions in windows or Linux

To configure EBS with following task :

Create EBS volume

Attaching and Detaching EBS volume

Expanding the size of EBS volume

Taking the snapshot of EBS volume

1.To create an EBS volumes

open the Amazon console 

select compute ,choose EC2 service 

on the EC2 Dashboard panel

Choose "Elastic Block Store"Click on volumes

Click on create volume button

in the create volume dialog box,

Verify volume successfully created

click on Close button

To monitoring the State of your volume

select volume check state ---------->available

in the Name column give name for your volume----------->2gb 2a

2.To Attaching and Detaching EBS volume in windows instance

on the EC2 Dashboard panel

Choose "ELASTIC BLOCK STORE"click on volume

Note: The volume which you want to attach to an instance should be in same Availability Zone

Drop Down Action button,

select Attach volume.  

Select instance ------------->Winvm1

click on Attach

verify the availability of new volume

3.To check availability of drive login to your windows instance

Login to windows instance

Run---------->diskmgmt.msc

Verifies that 2 GB volume available as unallocated space

New disk is offline 

So turn it to online by right check and select online

Format the unallocated disk

Verify

 New volume to 2GB is available to use 

4.To Detach the volume

in windows select Disk 1

Right click select offline

On the EC2 Dashboard panel

Choose "Elastic Block Store"

Click on volume

select volume to be detached under Name column

Drop Down Action Button

Select "Detach volume"

Click on "Yes,Detach "button

verification

Login to window instance

Check that D:drive is removed

5.To create snapshot and Restore EBS volume

To create a snapshot

in the current D Drive two folders are available 

No create a snapshot of this volume

on the EC2 dashboard panel

Click on "Elastic Block Store"

Choose volume

Drop down Action button select create snapshot

Provide  snapshot details 

click on Create button

verify that snapshot is created

6.To Detach the volume

First select the disk 1 from Disk Management  

Right click select offline

On click EC2 Dashboard panel

Expand "Elastic Block Store ",Choose volume.

Select volume to be Detached under the Name Column

Drop down Action button ,select "Delete volume"  

Verify from window  instance open disk management tool

Now D drive is Detached

Now delete the volume

Verify volume is deleted

7.To Restore the volume

From the Console EC2 Dashboard 

Expand "Elastic Block Store" ,Choose Snapshots

select The Snapshot

Drop Down Action button,select Create volume

Accept the Default values in wizard

Note: Check the right availability Zone.

Verify volume is created

7.To expanding the size of EBS volume.

To expand EBS volume first take snapshot,now select the snapshot

on the EC2 Dashboard panel

Expand "Elastic Block Store",choose snapshots

Drop Down Action button

Select Create volume

Give the required size-------------->4GB

Check the right availability Zone

Click Create volume button

Verify that 4 GB is created

Now attach this expanded volume to your instance

Select instance

Click Attach button

Verify 4GB drive is available

Now with respect to windows operating system

Right click on D drive Expand your volume to your desired size

Verify 4GB drive is available

Verify that D drive contains two folders that was there in 2B drive earlier

similar check volume in linux instance

From Action Select Attach volume

Select Linux instance

Now connect to Linux Instance

To verify

Switch to root user and run fdisk-1

$ Sudo su

To check list of drivers and partitions

#fdisk -1