Before PowerScale CloudPools is configured on the PowerScale cluster, Microsoft Azure must be configured properly. General considerations and best practices for configuring Microsoft Azure for CloudPools include:
- URI for CloudPools: The blob endpoint is used as the URI for CloudPools. For example, if your general-purpose storage account is named mystorageaccount, the default blob endpoint for CloudPools is https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net. The endpoint is the URI for CloudPools.
- Azure storage account: Azure storage supports several types of storage accounts. For more details, see Azure storage account overview on the Microsoft website. CloudPools supports blob storage, hot access tiers. CloudPools does not support cold blobs.