# Remote Storage

Remote storage enables lifecycle management of volumes on supported **HPE Alletra storage arrays** (including **Alletra MP** and **Alletra 9000**, where supported) and allows compute instances to attach to or detach from those volumes. These operations can be performed during instance provisioning or post-provisioning through the reconfigure workflow. The currently supported transport protocol is **Fibre Channel**.

To get started with using remote storage, first, the storage plugin for Alletra needs to be loaded, and a storage server added. This allows the user to specify the URL where the management interface of the storage array is available, along with the user credentials to manage the storage array.

There is also a concept of a datastore, which is used to represent a container for a set of volumes. A datastore is associated with a storage server and also a resource pool. The resource pool is used to represent a site or a location, which is useful when storage HA is being used with datastores associated with different sites.

## Adding HPE AlletraStorage Integration

You can add the Allertra Storage plugin JAR using the Upload plugin method.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Creating a Storage Server](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-A450E1F4-7639-4C2C-9A32-0C6117C0816C.html)**
- **[Creating a Datastore](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007732en_us/render?page=GUID-EE8FF2B4-653E-448C-A0E8-80CA38DC0BCA.html)**
