EVS and Other Services

Figure 1 shows the relationships between EVS and other services.

**Figure 1** Relationships between EVS and other services

Figure 1 Relationships between EVS and other services

Table 1 EVS and other services

Interactive Function

Related Service

Reference

EVS disks can be attached to ECSs and used as scalable block storage devices.

ECS

Attach an EVS Disk

SCSI EVS disks can be attached to BMSs and used as scalable block storage devices.

BMS

Attach an EVS Disk

Backups can be created for EVS disks to guarantee the reliability and security of the server data.

CBR

Managing EVS Disk Backups

EVS encryption feature relies on KMS. You can use keys provided by KMS to encrypt EVS disks (both system and data disks), thus improving EVS disk data security.

KMS

Managing Encrypted EVS Disks

After EVS is enabled, the performance metrics of monitored disks can be viewed through Cloud Eye without any additional plug-in installed. The monitored metrics include Disk Read Rate, Disk Write Rate, Disk Read Requests, and Disk Write Requests.

Cloud Eye

Viewing Basic EVS Monitoring Data

Cloud Trace Service (CTS) records operations of EVS resources, facilitating user query, audit, and backtracking.

CTS

Recording EVS Operations Using CTS

Tag Management Service (TMS) tags are used to identify EVS resources for purposes of easy categorization and quick search.

TMS

Adding a Tag