Storage Management

Here you can see that every server’s storage disk information includes local disk storage and network storage in this system. And you can enable storage disk which you are interested to store recordings and images of VMS system.



You can also add external storage according to following steps:

Step1: Click the “Add External Storage” button, a window will pop up as shown below:

SMB/CIFS window:



NFS window:



The meanings of the items on the page can be referred to the table below:

Table 1.

Items

Function Introduction

Protocol

Choose protocol, including SMB/CIFS and NFS.

URL

Fill correct URL format.

For SMB/CIFS, e.g. “\\192.168.7.25\share”.

You can fill the URL according to your settings for NFS.

User Name

This option is available for SMB/CIFS, the account name for network disk which you set.

Password

You can set the password for network disk to guarantee the security if SMB/CIFS is selected.

Path

Input the NFS file path, e.g. “/path1/path2/.../path N”.

Step2: Finish the setting and click “Save” button. Then the disk will be added into the server storage disk list as shown below:



Note:
  1. Before adding the external storage, please make sure that the network disk is available within the network and properly configured to store the recorded files, etc.
  2. The network disks can be deleted, but local storage disk can’t be deleted from VMS system.