This section describes the CloudPools configuration on a PowerScale cluster, which includes:
- License verification
- Cloud storage account creation
- CloudPool creation
- File pool policy creation
- Running of 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 34.
- Verify that both the CloudPools and SmartPools license status is Activated.
Figure 34. Verifying licenses
This section describes how to create a cloud storage account on a PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools as shown in the following figure.
Figure 35. CloudPools
- Click the Create a Cloud Storage Account button, from the Create a Cloud Storage Account page as shown in Figure 36. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name or alias: Type a name to identify the cloud storage account.
- Type: Select Dell ECS Appliance.
- URL: Type the FQDN as your own (you can use the base URL created on ECS).
- User name: Type the object username created on ECS.
- Key (password): Type the secret key of object user.
Figure 36. Create a cloud storage account
- Click Connect account to create a cloud storage account. This operation results in two buckets being created in ECS. 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 the steps how to create a CloudPool on a PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools as shown in Figure 35.
- Click the Create a CloudPool button, from the Create a CloudPool page as shown in Figure 37. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name: Type a name to identify the CloudPool.
- Type: Select Dell ECS Appliance.
- Account in CloudPool: Select the cloud storage account as your own.
Figure 37. Create a CloudPool
- Click Create a CloudPool to create a CloudPool.
This section describes the steps to create a file pool policy on a PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click File Pool Policies as shown in the following figure.
Figure 38. 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 39 and Figure 40. 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.
Figure 39. Create a file pool policy
Figure 40. Create a file pool policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a file pool policy.
This section describes how to run the SmartPools job for CloudPools on a PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster management > Job operations. Click Job types as shown in the following figure.
Figure 41. Job types
- Select the SmartPools item and click Edit as shown in the following figure.
Figure 42. SmartPools job
- From the Edit job type details page as shown in Figure 43, 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 43. Edit job type details
- Click Start job as shown in Figure 42 to run the file pool policy to archive files from the PowerScale cluster to ECS. 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 the OneFS WebUI and go to Cluster Management > Licensing as shown in Figure 34. 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 44 and Figure 45. 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 44. Create SyncIQ policy
Figure 45. Create SyncIQ policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a SyncIQ policy.