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There are two main components of the SoDA architecture: the cloud management console (or SoDA Controller) and local agents.
The SoDA Controller and associated services are fully managed and offered as a service. Administrators access the SoDA console to configure storage targets, local agents, and accessors (how the agents connect to the storage). The SoDA Controller provides an interface for configuring and monitoring data movement policies and one-time transfers.
Local agents perform the data movement. Agents are installed on machines that have access to the various storage targets. These storage targets could be direct-attached block, shared NAS, or object storage. The CloudSoda agents run as background processes on the local machines while all management is configured through the single cloud management console.