- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Getting Started with ECS
- Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
- Authentication Providers
- Namespaces
- Users and Roles
- Identity and Access Management (S3)
- Buckets
- Introduction to buckets
- Working with buckets in the ECS Portal
- Create a bucket using the S3 API (with s3curl)
- Bucket, object, and namespace naming conventions
- Disable unused services
- File Access
- Introduction to file access
- ECS multi-protocol access
- Working with NFS exports in the ECS Portal
- Working with user/group mappings in the ECS Portal
- ECS NFS configuration tasks
- Mount an NFS export example
- NFS access using the ECS Management REST API
- NFS WORM (Write Once, Read Many)
- S3A support
- Geo-replication status
- Maintenance
- Certificates
- ECS Settings
- ECS Outage and Recovery
- Advanced Monitoring
- Advanced Monitoring
- View Advanced Monitoring Dashboards
- View mode
- Export CSV
- Data Access Performance - Overview
- Data Access Performance - by Namespaces
- Data Access Performance - by Nodes
- Data Access Performance - by Protocols
- Disk Bandwidth - by Nodes
- Disk Bandwidth - Overview
- Node Rebalancing
- Process Health - by Nodes
- Process Health - Overview
- Process Health - Process List by Node
- Recovery Status
- SSD Read Cache
- Tech Refresh: Data Migration
- Top Buckets
- Automatic Metering Reconstruction
- Share Advanced Monitoring Dashboards
- View Advanced Monitoring Dashboards
- Flux API
- Dashboard APIs
- Advanced Monitoring
- Document feedback
ECS 3.6.1 Administration Guide
Initial configuration
The initial configuration steps that are required to get started with ECS include logging in to the ECS Portal for the first time, using the ECS Portal Getting Started Task Checklist and Dashboard, uploading a license, and setting up an ECS virtual data center (VDC).
About this task
NOTE Set the user scope before you create the first object user. Setting up user scope is a strict one time configuration. Once configured for an ECS system, user scope cannot be changed. If you want to change the user scope, ECS must be reinstalled and all the users, buckets, namespaces, and data must be cleaned up.
- Refer Object users and User scope for more information about object users and user scope.
- For more information about object user tasks, see the ECS Data Access Guide.
To initially configure ECS, the root user or System Administrator must at a minimum:
Steps
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Upload an ECS license.
See Licensing.
- Select a set of nodes to create at least one storage pool.
- Create a VDC.
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Create at least one replication group.
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Optional: Set authentication.
You can add Active Directory (AD), LDAP, or Keystone authentication providers to ECS to enable users to be authenticated by systems external to ECS. See Introduction to authentication providers.
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Optional: Set authentication.
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Create at least one namespace. A namespace is the equivalent of a tenant.
See Create a namespace.
- Optional: Create object and/or management users.
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Create at least one bucket.
See Create a bucket.After you configure the initial VDC, if you want to create an additional VDC and federate it with the first VDC, see Add a VDC to a federation.
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