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Changing the Scope of the Primary Storage
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Scope of a Primary Storage can be changed from Zone-wide to Cluster-wide
and vice versa when the Primary Storage is in Disabled state.
An action button is displayed in UI for each Primary Storage in Disabled state.

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Scope change from Cluster to Zone will connect the Primary Storage to all Hosts
of the zone running the same hypervisor as set on the storage pool.

Scope change from Zone to Cluster will disconnect the Primary Storage from all
Hosts that were previously connected to the Primary Storage and are not a part
of the specified Cluster. So, if there are running VMs on such hosts using this
Storage Pool, it cannot be disconnected from the hosts. In this case the Scope
change operation will error out. Such VMs need to be stopped or migrated first.

This feature is tested and supported for the following Hypervisor-Protocol-
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This feature is tested and supported for the following Hypervisor-Protocol-
This feature is tested and supported for the following Hypervisor and storage combinations:

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Done

Storage Provider combinations:

- KVM - NFS - Default Primary

- KVM - CEPH/RBD - Default Primary

- VMWare - NFS - Default Primary

It is possible to use this functionality with other configurations but some
manual intervention might be needed by the Administrator to make it work.


Storage Tags
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:alt: Adding Local Storage Pool via UI
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:alt: Change Primary Storage Scope via UI
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If you intend to use only local disk for your installation, you can skip
adding separate primary storage.

Changing the Scope of the Primary Storage
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Starting 4.19.1.0, it is possible to change the Scope of a Primary Storage
from Zone-wide to Cluster-wide and vice versa. The option will be visible only
after the Primary Storage has been disabled.

This feature is tested and supported for the following Hypervisor-Protocol-
Storage Provider combinations:

- KVM - NFS - Default Primary

- KVM - CEPH/RBD - Default Primary

- VMWare - NFS - Default Primary

It is possible to use this functionality with other configurations but some
manual intervention might be needed by the Administrator to make it work.


About Secondary Storage
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