Veritas Access Cloud Storage Tiering Solutions Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.4)
Platform: Linux

Workflow for adding a cloud tier

By default, a scale-out file system has a single primary tier, which is the on-premises storage for the scale-out file system. You can add a cloud service as an additional tier. After a cloud tier is configured, you can move data between the tiers of the scale-out file system.

See Amazon Glacier considerations and retrieval options.

See Benefits of moving Veritas Access on-premises data to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

To add a cloud tier (Alibaba, AWS, AWS GovCloud (US), Azure, or Google, or S3-compatible), perform the actions in the order listed (GUI operations order):

  1. Add a cloud subscription for the selected cloud provider.

  2. Create a scale-out file system with a minimum file system size of 10 GB.

  3. Select a storage pool for the on-premises storage.

  4. Specify that you want to add cloud storage and specify a name for the cloud tier.

  5. Select the cloud storage provider and other fields.

    Alibaba

    Select the cloud service.

    Select a region.

    AWS

    Select the cloud service.

    Select the tier type, Glacier or S3

    Select the region.

    AWS GovCloud (US)

    Select the cloud service.

    Select the tier type, Glacier, S3, or S3 (FIPS)

    Azure

    Select the cloud service.

    Note:

    You can add additional Azure storage accounts to the same cloud tier to expand the capacity of the cloud tier beyond 500 TB. Simply repeat this procedure with a different Azure storage account, and specify the same cloud tier name to add an additional storage account to the cloud tier. You provide the storage account information when you add the cloud subscription. Storage account information is contained in the cloud subscription.

    Google

    Select the cloud service.

    A .json file is required. The .json file is contained in the cloud service.

    Select the tier type, Coldline, Multi-Regional, Nearline, Regional

    Select a region.

    IBM Cloud Object Storage

    Select the cloud service.

    Select a region.

    S3-compatible

    Select the cloud service.

    The access key, secret key, and the REST endpoint of the S3 server are contained in the cloud service.