Change History

2023-01-16

Modified the following content:

• Modified content about Extreme SSD disks in sections What Is EVS?, Disk Types and Performance, Initialize an EVS Data Disk, Create an EVS Disk, What Should I Do If My Disk Capacity Exceeds 2 TiB After Expansion?, How Can I Add a Data Disk to an Existing Server?, and Auditing.
• Modified content in sections Managing Encrypted EVS Disks and Expansion Overview based on the audit review comments.

2022-12-15

Added the following content:

• Added the EVS operations that can be recorded in Auditing.
• Added some FAQs.
• Optimized certain descriptions.

2022-07-15

Added the following content:

• Added content about Extreme SSD disks in Disk Types and Performance and Create an EVS Disk.

2022-04-15

Added the following content:

• Added content about EVS permissions in Permissions Management and Permissions Management.

2021-12-27

Modified the following content:

• Optimized the descriptions of the impacts brought by an unavailable CMK in EVS Encryption.

2020-08-15

Added the following content:

• Added CBR description in EVS Backup and Managing EVS Backups.

2019-04-09

Accepted in OTC-4.0/Agile-04.2019.

2019-02-15

Modified the following content:

• Deprecated the content of EVS replication as EVS replication APIs have been deprecated.

2018-11-30

Added the following content:

• Added contents about bootable disks, system disks, and data disks in Attaching a Non-Shared Disk, Detaching a System Disk, and Detaching a Data Disk.

2018-05-14

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed issues.

2018-02-28

Added the following content:

• Added Expanding EVS Disks in a Replication Consistency Group.

Modified the following content:

• Modified the EVS replication flowchart and added some contents.

2018-02-24

Modified the following content:

• Modified Configuring a Virtual IP Address for the Server.
• Modified the reviewed issues.

2018-01-31

Added the following content:

• Added Configuring a Virtual IP Address for the Server.

2018-01-25

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed issues.
• Changed a prerequisite for performing planned migrations and reprotections to that only production servers need to be stopped but EVS disks no longer need to be detached.

2018-01-19

Modified the following content:

• Added Managing EVS Transfers.

2017-12-01

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed EVS replication issues.

2017-11-30

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed EVS replication issues.

2017-10-28

Added the following content:

• Added descriptions about EVS replication.

2017-10-25

Modified the following content:

• Made relevant modifications in Rolling Back Data from a Snapshot according to the snapshot rollback changes made on the console.

2017-10-20

Modified the following content:

• Changed the maximum capacity of a system disk to 1,024 GB in Create an EVS Disk.
• Added the description that a maximum of 7 snapshots can be created for an EVS disk in Creating a Snapshot.

2017-10-13

Added the following content:

• Enabled the function of rolling back data from snapshots and added the relevant content in the document.
• Added the content of searching EVS resources by tags in Searching Disks by Tags.

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed issues in Create an EVS Disk.

2017-09-30

Added the following content:

• Added support for detaching in-use EVS disks in Detaching a Data Disk.
• Added operations in Expanding Capacity for an In-use EVS Disk.
• Added the ECS types and OSs supported by SCSI EVS disks.

Modified the following content:

• Modified the number of data disks that can be attached to an ECS to 23 in Attaching a Shared Disk.

2017-09-28

Modified the following content:

• Adjusted the outline of the document.
• Modified the reviewed issues in the document.

2017-09-08

Added the following content:

• Added support for the disk creation using a backup shared by another tenant in Create an EVS Disk.

Modified the following content:

• Removed the Restore Data button from the EVS console, and deleted or modified the related descriptions from the document.

2017-08-22

Modified the following content:

• Modified the reviewed issues in the document.

2017-07-30

Added the following content:

• Added support for the EVS snapshot function.
• Added support for the TMS tag function.
• Added support for the High I/O (Performance optimized I) and Ultra-high I/O (Latency optimized) EVS disk types.
• Added support for the multi-project function.

2017-06-15

Added the following content:

• Added the description that SCSI EVS disks can only be attached to BMSs.

2017-06-08

Modified the following content:

• Modified the description of detaching EVS disks in Attaching a Shared Disk.

2017-06-06

Added the following content:

• Added a notice on using ECS groups and SCSI reservations simultaneously in Managing Shared EVS Disks.

2017-06-05

Added the following content:

• Added the description of the relationship between ECS groups and SCSI reservation in Managing Shared EVS Disks.

Modified the following content:

• Modified the disk attachment description from attaching EVS disks to ECSs to attaching EVS disks to servers. Servers can be either ECSs or BMSs.

2017-06-01

Added the following content:

• Added the description that shared EVS disks cannot be created from the backups of system disks in Shared EVS Disks and Usage Instructions.
• Added the restriction on detaching shared EVS disks in Attaching a Shared Disk.

2017-05-22

Modified the following content:

• Made modifications in Create an EVS Disk according to the adjustments made on the Create Disk page.
  • Adjusted the sequence of parameters Disk Name and AZ.
  • Adjusted the location of parameter Create from backup.

2017-05-05

Added the following content:

• Added SCSI and VBD to the glossary.

2017-04-30

Added the following content:

• Added Windows public images and ECS types supported by shared SCSI EVS disks.

2017-03-30

Added the following content:

• Added the Rolling back and Rollback failed states for EVS disks in EVS Disk Status.
• Added support for SCSI EVS disks in Create an EVS Disk.
• Added support for shared EVS disks in Create an EVS Disk.

2017-02-08

Modified the following content:

• Modified the description for parameters Create Xrole and Xrole Name:EVSAccessKMS in Create an EVS Disk.

2017-02-03

Added the following content:

• Added the description that batch creation is not supported when EVS disks are created from backups in Create an EVS Disk.
• Added the description for parameters Create Xrole and Xrole Name:EVSAccessKMS in Create an EVS Disk.

Modified the following content:

• Changed the name of parameter Disk encryption to Encryption in Create an EVS Disk.

2017-01-23

Added the following content:

• Added the impact on encrypted EVS disks caused by the disabled and schedule deleted CMKs.

2017-01-20

Added the following content:

• Added the key encryption function of EVS disks.

2016-10-28

Added the following content:

• Added the description of the relationship between shared disks and EVS disks in Shared EVS Disks and Usage Instructions.
• Added examples in the Example Value column in Table 2-1 in Create an EVS Disk.

Modified the following content:

• Updates the format of Steps in the document.
• Updated the figure for Step 9 in Initializing a Windows Data Disk (Windows Server 2008).
• Changes the value of Number of Cloud Server Mount Points from 11 to 14 in the EVS row of Table 3-1.
• Updates the NOTE descriptions in Step 13 of "Expand Capacity of an EVS Disk (Windows)" and Step 12 of "Expand Capacity of an EVS Disk (Linux)": indicating that the new disks must be initialized.
• Added double quotation marks to "Creating a VBS Backup" to indicate quotation in Managing EVS Backups.
• Updated the description of EVS disk specifications to be consistent with descriptions in previous sections in Disk Types and Performance.
• Updated the section names in NOTE to be consistent with section 4.10 in EVS Disk Status.

Deleted the following content:

• Deleted the Monitored Object column from Table 1-1 in EVS and Other Services.
• Deletes the unnecessary table of Mapping between mount points and EVS disk names.
• Deletes the comma before "or Restoration failed" in the section of Delete an EVS disk.
• Deletes sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 from FAQs, because the three sections have been contained in the Overview chapter.

2016-09-23

Added the following content:

• Adds the details about three disk types.
• Adds information about how to handle deletion or restoration failures to the notice for the section of Delete an EVS Disk.

Modified the following content:

• Updates the link names in step 20 and the note in the section of Expand Capacity of an EVS Disk (Linux).

Deleted the following content:

• Deletes part of the AZ parameter description from the table.

2016-09-18

This issue is the first official release.