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If it is not already created, create a Replication Group on the ECS. To do this, use the ECS Management GUI and select the New Replication Group option.
After creating a replication group, specify which VDCs to include in the group and which of the Storage Pools from that VDC will be used.
Next, open the ECS Management GUI and create a Namespace that the IBM Spectrum Protect user will use.
Specify whether the buckets created in this Namespace are to be available after a VDC outage has occurred (Access During Outage setting), quotas of individual buckets to be set at the Namespace level, and Compliance and Retention Policy options. For more details about Namespace configuration, see the ECS Online Administrator Guide.
Note: If you specify Compliance to be true for a Namespace, IBM Spectrum Protect cannot create the buckets: they must be created using the ECS Management GUI.