- Now let's review a demo,
of mounting an EBS volume, to a Window's instance.
Fromm the EC2 dashboard in the AWS console,
I'm gonna go down here to our volumes,
you can see here a couple of volumes that
we created earlier,
I'm gonna choose one of these, the data volume,
and the first thing we need to do is
attach it to the instance.
So I'm going to click Attach Volume,
I'm going to click here and it will automatically
give us the ability to choose which instances,
right now we only have the Windows server running,
I'm gonna click that one, I'm gonna leave this
as XVDF, and of course we could go through XVDP
if we wanted to.
So I'm just gonna leave that as it is,
and I'm gonna click Attach, and you can see that
now our volume goes from an available state to In Use.
So that means that it's attached, and you can see here
that it shows the attachment information
as being attached to our Windows server,
and its still in the attaching state.
So while that attaches, I'm gonna go ahead
and open another RDP session,
into our Windows EC2 instance,
so now that we're here, we have our RDP session and
open to our Windows server, I'm going to go into
the server manager,
and I'm going to go to File and Storage Devices, Disks,
you can see that we have our 100 gig volume,
that we just attached, I'm going to right click on that
one and say,
"Bring on line",
I'm gonna say,
"Yes, I'm sure that I wanna do that"
Once its online, I'm going to initialize that,
and yes, I know that its going to erase the data,
but there's nothing on there its a brand new device,
So, yes,
And there we go.
Now that we have that device available,
we can do with it as we need do.
We can format it, we can leverage it for storage,
whatever, so that is mounting an EBS volume
to a Windows instance.