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Dell PowerScale SyncIQ: Architecture, Configuration, and Considerations
Executive summary Introduction to SyncIQ Deployment topologies Use cases Architecture and processes Data replication Configuring a SyncIQ policy Impacts of modifying SyncIQ policies SyncIQ performance rules SnapshotIQ and SyncIQ SyncIQ design considerations Failover and failback Superna Eyeglass DR Edition SyncIQ and CloudPools
Introduction to SyncIQ and CloudPools
CloudPools failover and failback implications
Target cluster SyncIQ and CloudPools configuration
SyncIQ security SyncIQ bandwidth reservations Monitoring, alerting, reporting, and optimizing performance Administration SyncIQ replication and data reduction 16 TiB large file support and SyncIQ implications OneFS version compatibility SmartLock compatibility Conclusion Appendix A: Failover and failback steps Appendix B: SyncIQ encryption with self-signed certificates Appendix C: Configuring cascaded replication Appendix D: Configuring custom replication Appendix E: Technical support and resources

Introduction to SyncIQ and CloudPools

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Introduction to SyncIQ and CloudPools

  • OneFS SyncIQ and CloudPools features are designed to work together seamlessly. CloudPools tiers data to a cloud provider. The cloud provider could be Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), a public, private, or hosted cloud. As data is tiered to a cloud provider, a small file is retained on the cluster, referred to as a SmartLink, containing the relevant metadata to retrieve the file at a later point. A file that is tiered to the cloud, cannot be retrieved without the SmartLink file. For more information about CloudPools, see PowerScale OneFS CloudPools Administration Guide or the PowerScale CloudPools and ECS Solution Guide.

    If a directory on the source cluster is configured for data replication to a target cluster containing the SmartLink files, the SmartLink files are also replicated to the target cluster.

    Note: Although configuration to a cloud provider exists on the source and target clusters, it is important to understand that only a single cluster may have read and write access to the cloud provider. Both the source and target cluster have read access, but only a single cluster may have read and write access.

    During normal operation, the source cluster has read/write access to the cloud provider, while the target cluster is read-only, as illustrated in the following figure.

    A figure illustrating SyncIQ and CloudPools with ECS.

    Figure 31.    PowerScale SyncIQ and CloudPools with ECS