NFS storage component settings

Each NFS storage component represents a single physical storage device on which one or more volumes are accessed using NFS mount points.

When you create an NFS storage component, you provide HCP with the information that it needs to create an NFS mount point for each volume that you want to access on the device that’s represented by the NFS storage component. However, HCP creates an NFS mount point that’s associated with a given storage component only when that mount point is added to an NFS storage pool.

When an HCP system is upgraded from release 6.x to release 7.0 or later, HCP automatically creates an NFS storage component and an NFS storage pool for each external volume that was configured on the HCP system before it was upgraded, and defines each NFS storage pool as a storage tier. For each namespace that was configured to use NFS storage before the upgrade, HCP automatically configures the service plan for that namespace to define the applicable NFS storage pool as a storage tier.

On the Hardware page of the System Management Console, HCP uses an external volume (also called an NFS volume) to represent the storage that’s accessed using a single NFS mount point that’s contained in an NFS storage pool. You can use the Storage page to view information about all NFS volumes stored on a single physical storage device that’s represented by an NFS storage component.