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Volumes Tab

The Volumes tab allows you to configure the set of volumes required for the operation of the appliance. The volumes defined on this tab are known as boundary volumes, as they are the only volumes visible to those, who use the appliance.

The boundary volumes are always placeholder volumes that you will redirect to volumes of the appliances in the assembly.

For each volume, the following fields are defined:

Name

Logical name of the volume within the appliance. This name represents the role of the volume for the appliance class. It is a single word, case-sensitive, alphanumeric ([A-Za-z0-9_]).

Options

A set of important volume options described below.
The mandatory attribute (denoted by an exclamation point) makes the placeholder volumes required (currently all volumes are required, so this attribute is not used).

Notes:

• You can arrange the order of the volumes in the list using the up and down arrows. The order affects only how the volumes will be presented to you in the property sheets; it has no runtime impact.
• Assemblies have fewer attributes required on their volumes than simple appliances because most of the required information is defined automatically when the volume is redirected inside the assembly.
• If you plan to add your assembly to a catalog, you should add in this list all needed placeholder volumes of assembly's subordinate appliances, and then redirect the volumes of the subordinate appliances to these boundary volumes. This will make it possible to configure different volumes on each instance of the assembly.