Elastic Block Storage Contd..

• EBS Volume can be attached to only one instance at a given point of time.
• EBS volume that is attached to ec2 instance as a root ebs has a filesystem by default
• Any additonal volumes that are attached needs to be formatted.
• Steps:
  • How to format the Windows Servers
  • How to format the linux systems

Lets create a Windows Server

• Add a volume while creating a windows server
  
• Post creation view volumes
  
• Create a new volume in the same az as your windows server and attach the volume to the ec2 instance
  
• Launch Server Manager -> File and Storage Services -> Disks.
• Select the disk and bring online
  
• Now after disk is online. create a new volume
  
  
  
• Now you should see the E:\ drive
  
• Lets assume we need to increase the disk size of E to 2 GB