PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CloudPools Administration Guide

Dell Technologies PowerScale

CloudPools enables a Dell Technologies PowerScale cluster to function as a cloud storage provider.

In this scenario, a secondary PowerScale cluster provides a private cloud solution. The primary cluster archives files to the secondary cluster. Both clusters are managed in your corporate data center. The secondary cluster must be running a compatible version of OneFS.

To act as a cloud storage provider, the PowerScale cluster uses APIs that configure CloudPools policies, define cloud storage accounts, and retrieve cloud storage usage reports. These APIs are known collectively as the PowerScale Platform API, and are described in the OneFS API Reference.

To configure a secondary PowerScale cluster as the cloud storage repository, you must complete several tasks:

• On the secondary cluster:
  • Log in with system administrator privileges, and create a user.
  • Create a role with access to Console, Platform API, License, Namespace Traverse, and Namespace Access privileges. Make the new user a member of this role.
  • Log in as the new user, and create the directory where cloud data should be stored. For example: /ifs/data/HQ-Archive.
• On the primary cluster:
  • Create the cloud storage account with a provider type of isilon. Specify the new user credentials and the appropriate URI for the secondary cluster. Because the secondary cluster is within your corporate network, the URI looks similar to the following:

    https://10.1.210.310:8080/namespace/ifs/data/HQ-Archive

  • Create a CloudPool that refers to the new cloud storage account.