Difference between Data Disk Volume and Root Disk Volume

[Punit Dambiwal <hy...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I found two disk volumes for every VM,Data Disk Volume and Root Disk
Volume,i searched over the cloudstack docs but didn't find the information
about both of them,can any body let me know the diffrence between Data Disk
Volume and root disk volume.

Thanks,
Punit

Fwd: Difference between Data Disk Volume and Root Disk Volume

[Punit Dambiwal <hy...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Got the answer of my question here :-

http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Admin_Guide/working-with-volumes.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Punit Dambiwal <hy...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Subject: Difference between Data Disk Volume and Root Disk Volume
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org


Hi,

I found two disk volumes for every VM,Data Disk Volume and Root Disk
Volume,i searched over the cloudstack docs but didn't find the information
about both of them,can any body let me know the diffrence between Data Disk
Volume and root disk volume.

Thanks,
Punit

Re: Difference between Data Disk Volume and Root Disk Volume

[Alex Yang <al...@gmail.com>]

Hi Punit,

The Root Disk is used to install operating system. You can consider the
Root Disk as a VM.
The Data Disk is just a disk that you can attatch or dettach it.


2013/8/6 Punit Dambiwal <hy...@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I found two disk volumes for every VM,Data Disk Volume and Root Disk
> Volume,i searched over the cloudstack docs but didn't find the information
> about both of them,can any body let me know the diffrence between Data Disk
> Volume and root disk volume.
>
> Thanks,
> Punit
>



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