CloudPools Supported Cloud Providers
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:43:11 -0000
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The Dell PowerScale CloudPools feature of OneFS allows tiering, enabling you to move cold or infrequently accessed data to lower-cost cloud storage. CloudPools extends the PowerScale namespace to the private cloud and the public cloud.
This blog focuses on CloudPools supported cloud providers.
CloudPools supported cloud providers
Each cloud provider offers a range of storage classes that you can choose from based on data access and cost requirements. CloudPools does not support some specific storage classes that may cause CloudPools operations failure due to unacceptable object read/write latency.
Table 1. Supported and unsupported cloud providers and storage classes for CloudPools
Cloud providers | Supported storage classes | Unsupported storage classes |
All | N/A | |
S3 Standard |
| |
Hot access tier |
| |
| Archive storage | |
Standard |
|
To address cost requirements, users can move objects from higher cost storage class to lower cost storage class on the cloud. The tiers are as follows:
- Supported/Tier1 storage classes: CloudPools supports the storage classes.
- Tier2 storage classes: Amazon S3 supports using S3 Lifecycle policy to move CloudPools objects from the Tier1 storage class to the Tier2 storage class. This movement will not break CloudPools operations.
- Tier3 storage classes: Amazon S3 supports using S3 Lifecycle policy to move CloudPools objects from the Tier1 storage class to the Tier3 storage class. This movement will break CloudPools operations. CloudPools objects must first be moved to Tier2 storage class or Tier1 storage class to be accessed.
Table 2. Storage classes per tier per cloud provider in CloudPools
Cloud providers | Supported/Tier1 storage classes | Tier2 storage classes | Tier3 storage classes |
S3 Standard |
|
| |
Hot access tier |
|
| |
| Archive storage |
| |
Standard |
|
|
[1] Assumes no opt-in to Deep Archive Access Tier.
[2] Assumes real-time access is enabled.
[3] S3 directory buckets only allow objects stored in the S3 Express One Zone storage class and do not support S3 Lifecycle policies.
Resources
- Dell PowerScale: CloudPools and ECS
- Dell PowerScale: CloudPools and Amazon Web Services
- Dell PowerScale: CloudPools and Microsoft Azure
- Dell PowerScale: CloudPools and Google Cloud
- Dell PowerScale: CloudPools and Alibaba Cloud
Author: Jason He, Principal Engineering Technologist