This section describes the CloudPools configuration on a PowerScale cluster, which includes:
- Verifying license
- Creating cloud storage account
- Creating CloudPool
- Creating file pool policy
- Running SmartPools job for CloudPools
- Creating SyncIQ policy
Verifying license
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.
Figure 18. Verifying licenses
- Verify that the CloudPools and SmartPools license status is Activated.
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
- On the Create a Cloud Storage Account page, click + Create a Cloud Storage Account, as shown in Figure 20. The minimum information for CloudPools and Microsoft Azure is as follows:
- Name or alias: Type a name to identify the cloud storage account.
- Type: Select Microsoft Azure.
- URI: Type the URI to connect Microsoft Azure.
- User name (account name): Type the account name gathered on the Microsoft Azure portal.
- Key (access key): Type the access key gathered on the Microsoft Azure portal.
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 Microsoft Azure. 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 Microsoft Azure on the PowerScale cluster.
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click CloudPools, as shown in Figure 19.
- On the Create a CloudPool page, click + Create a CloudPool, as shown in Figure 21. The minimum information is as follows:
- Name: Type a name to identify the CloudPool.
- Type: Select Microsoft Azure.
- Account in CloudPool: Select the cloud storage account.
Figure 21. Create a CloudPool
- Click Create a CloudPool to create a CloudPool.
Create a file pool policy on the PowerScale cluster as follows:
- Log in to the OneFS WebUI and go to File System > Storage Pools. Click File Pool Policies, as shown in Figure 22.
Figure 22. Create a file pool policy
- On the Create a file pool policy page, click + Create a File Pool Policy, as shown in Figure 23 and Figure 24. Provide the following information, at a minimum:
- 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 23. Create a file pool policy
Figure 24. Create a file pool policy (continued)
- Click Create policy to create a file pool policy.
Run a SmartPools job for CloudPools on the PowerScale cluster as follows:
- 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 Figure 26.
Figure 26. SmartPools job
- From the 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 Microsoft Azure. If you want to start a specific file pool policy job manually, see Commands and troubleshooting.
Create a SyncIQ policy on the PowerScale cluster as follows:
- 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 + Create a SyncIQ policy, as shown in Figure 28 and Figure 29. Provide the following information, at a minimum:
- 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.