This section describes the CloudPools configuration on a PowerScale cluster, which includes:
- License verification
- Cloud storage account creation
- CloudPools creation
- File pool policy creation
- Running SmartPools job for CloudPools
- SyncIQ policy creation
License verification
This section describes how to verify licensing on the PowerScale system.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster Management > Licensing as shown in Figure 17.
- Verify that both the CloudPools and SmartPools license status is Activated.
Figure 17. Verifying licenses
Cloud storage account
This section describes how to create a cloud storage account on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools as shown in Figure 18.
Figure 18. CloudPools
- Click the + Create a Cloud Storage Account button, from the Create a Cloud Storage Account page as shown in Figure 19. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name or alias: Type a name to identify the cloud storage account.
- Type: Select Alibaba Cloud.
- URI: Type the URI to connect Alibaba Cloud. For example, the URI is https://oss-us-west-1.aliyuncs.com.
- User name (access key ID): Type the account name gathered on the Alibaba Cloud portal.
- Key (access key secret): Type the access key gathered on the Alibaba Cloud portal.
- Storage region: Select the mapping region for the URI.
Figure 19. Create a cloud storage account
- Click Connect account to create a cloud storage account. This operation results in two buckets being created in Alibaba Cloud. One bucket will start with a d as a container to store the CDOs, and the other will start with an m as a container to store the associated metadata.
CloudPool
This section describes how to create a CloudPool for Alibaba Cloud on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools as shown in Figure 18.
- Click the + Create a CloudPool button from the Create a CloudPool page as shown in Figure 20. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name: Type a name to identify the CloudPool.
- Type: Select Alibaba Cloud.
- Account in CloudPool: Select the cloud storage account as your own.
Figure 20. Create a CloudPool
- Click Create a CloudPool to create a CloudPool.
File pool policy
This section describes how to create a file pool policy on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click File Pool Policies as shown in Figure 21.
Figure 21. Create a file pool policy
- Click the + Create a File Pool Policy button, from the Create a file pool policy page as shown in Figure 22 and Figure 23. The minimum information is as follows:
- Policy Name: Type a name to identify the file pool policy.
- File Matching Criteria: This option is sued to define a logical group of files for CloudPools. See File matching criteria
File matching criteria. - Move to cloud storage: Select the specific CloudPool as the CloudPool storage target.
- Data retention settings: Set the data retention as your own. See Data retention
Data retention.
Figure 22. Create a file pool policy
Figure 23. Create a file pool policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a file pool policy.
Run SmartPools job for CloudPools
This section describes how to run the SmartPools job for CloudPools on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster management > Job operations. Click Job types as shown in Figure 24.
Figure 24. Job types
- Select the SmartPools item and click Edit as shown in Figure 25.
Figure 25. SmartPools job
- From the Edit job type details page as shown in Figure 26, you can:
- Enable or disable the job
- Set the priority of the job
- Set the impact policy
- Set the job schedule as manual or scheduled as your own
Figure 26. Edit job type details
- Click Start job as shown in Figure 25 to run the file pool policy to archive files from the PowerScale cluster to Alibaba Cloud. If you want to start a specific file pool policy job manually, see Commands and troubleshooting
Commands and troubleshooting.
SyncIQ policy
This section describes how to create a SyncIQ policy on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster Management > Licensing as shown in Figure 17. Verify that the CloudPools, SmartPools, and SyncIQ license status are Activated.
- Go to Data Protection > SyncIQ > Policies and click the + Create a SyncIQ policy button as shown in Figure 27 and Figure 28. The minimum information is as follows:
- Policy name: Type a name to identify the policy name.
- Source root directory: Type the directory name from the source PowerScale cluster you want to replicate to the target PowerScale cluster.
- Target host: Type the IP or name of the target PowerScale cluster.
- Target directory: Type the directory name from the target PowerScale cluster you want to store the data replicated from the source PowerScale cluster.
- Deep copy for CloudPools: Select the type you want to use.
Figure 27. Create SyncIQ policy
Figure 28. Create SyncIQ policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a SyncIQ policy.