Before configuring PowerScale CloudPools on the PowerScale cluster, Google Cloud needs to be configured properly. The general considerations and best practices for configuring Google Cloud for CloudPools are as follows:
- URI for CloudPools: The Google Cloud storage request endpoint is used as the URI for CloudPools. The default request endpoint for CloudPools is https://storage.googleapis.com.
- Identity and access management (IAM): An IAM role needs to be assigned to your own member or Google Cloud account with proper permissions before setting up CloudPools on a PowerScale cluster. CloudPools uses the member to manage buckets and objects for CloudPools operations. The IAM role Storage Object Admin needs to be assigned to your own member. For more details, see the document Permission granting in IAM on the Google Cloud website.
- CloudPools support of Google Cloud storage classes: CloudPools supports Google Cloud Standard Storage, Nearline Storage, and Coldline Storage. CloudPools does not support Google Cloud Archive Storage. For more details on Google Cloud storage classes, see the document Google Cloud storage classes.