The following diagram illustrates the relationship and mapping of Everpure Cloud Azure Native resources:
Everpure Cloud resource
When first configuring Everpure Cloud, you will be asked to select your preferred region, enter your billing information, and to provide a name for your Everpure Cloud resource.
Provided name for a resource:
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Can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores.
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Must begin and end with a letter or a number.
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Each hyphen and underscore must be preceded and followed by an alphanumeric character.
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Must be between 3 and 24 characters long.
With this resource set, you can start creating Storage Pool resources within your subscription and selected region.
Storage Pool resource
Storage Pools represent instances of your storage. When you configure a new Storage Pool, you specify its name, select the availability zone, desired maximum performance, and the virtual network with a delegated subnet, where the Storage Pool will be available.
The selected performance will be shared across all volumes within the Storage Pool.
You can have multiple Storage Pools which are connected to one particular AVS instance or several different AVS instances.
AVS Storage Container resource
AVS Storage Containers represent entities that are mapped to VMware Datastores in your Azure VMware Solution cluster.
Volume resource
In case you have created vVol Datastore, Volume resource represents a Virtual Volume to be used by hosts within your Azure VMware Solution cluster.