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<section id="add-secondary-storage">
<title>Adding Secondary Storage</title>
<note>
<para>Be sure there is nothing stored on the server. Adding the server to CloudStack will
destroy any existing data.</para>
</note>
<para>When you create a new zone, the first secondary storage is added as part of that procedure.
You can add secondary storage servers at any time to add more servers to an existing
zone.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you are going to use Swift for cloud-wide secondary storage, you must add the Swift
storage to &PRODUCT; before you add the local zone secondary storage servers.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To prepare for local zone secondary storage, you should have created and mounted an NFS
share during Management Server installation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Make sure you prepared the system VM template during Management Server
installation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>4. Now that the secondary storage server for per-zone storage is prepared, add it to
&PRODUCT;. Secondary storage is added as part of the procedure for adding a new zone.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>