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
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 18.
- Verify that the CloudPools and SmartPools license status is Activated.
Figure 18. Verifying licenses
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 19.
Figure 19. CloudPools
Click the + Create a Cloud Storage Account button from the Create a Cloud Storage Account page as shown in the Figure 20. Click the + Create a Cloud Storage Account button from the Create a Cloud Storage Account page as shown in Figure 20. The minimum information for CloudPools and Google Cloud Platform is as follows:
- Name or alias: Type a name to identify the cloud storage account.
- Type: Select Google Cloud Platform.
- URI: Type the URI to connect Google Cloud Platform.
- User name (interoperability access key): Type the access key gathered on the Google Cloud Platform console.
- Key (interoperability secret): Type the secret gathered on the Google Cloud Platform console.
Figure 20. Create a cloud storage account
- Click Connect account to create a cloud storage account. This operation results in two buckets being created in Google Cloud Platform. 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.
This section describes how to create a CloudPool for Google Cloud Platform on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools as shown in Figure 19.
- Click the + Create a CloudPool button from the Create a CloudPool page as shown in Figure 21. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name: Type a name to identify the CloudPool.
- Type: Select Google Cloud Platform.
- Account in CloudPool: Select the cloud storage account.
Figure 21. Create a CloudPool
- Click Create a CloudPool to create a CloudPool.
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 the Figure 22.Click File Pool Policies as shown in Figure 22.
Figure 22. 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 23 and Figure 24. The minimum information is as follows:
- Policy Name: Type a name to identify the file pool policy.
- File Matching Criteria: Define a logical group of files for CloudPools. See 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 settings.
Figure 23. Create a file pool policy
Figure 24. Create a file pool policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a file pool policy.
This section describes how to run a 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 25.
Figure 25. Job types
- Select the SmartPools item and click Edit as shown in the Figure 26.Select the SmartPools item and click Edit as shown in Figure 26.
Figure 26. SmartPools job
- From Edit job type details page as shown in Figure 27, 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
Figure 27. Edit job type details
- Click Start job as shown in Figure 26 to run the file pool policy to archive files from the PowerScale cluster to Google Cloud. If you want to start a specific file pool policy job manually, see Commands and troubleshooting.
This section describes how to create a SyncIQ policy on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster Management > Licensing as shown in Figure 18. 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 28 and Figure 29. The minimum information is as follows:
- Policy name: Type a name to identify the policy name.
- Source root directory: Type the directory name from 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 28. Create SyncIQ policy
Figure 29. Create SyncIQ policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a SyncIQ policy.