Working with extended storage components

HCP uses extended storage components to provide you with an interface to use, manage, and monitor extended storage devices and cloud storage service endpoints.

Using the System Management Console, you can perform the following actions on extended storage components:

  • Configure HCP to access specific extended storage devices and cloud storage service endpoints.
  • Configure HCP to monitor, manage, and use all of the extended storage that is accessed using one or more extended storage components of the same type as a single storage pool.
  • Monitor the health, availability, capacity, and usage of the extended storage that is represented by each component, and appropriately provision storage.
  • Pause (suspend), retire, or abandon extended storage that is represented by a single storage component, or retire all of the extended storage that is represented by the components in a single storage pool.