You define cloud storage accounts in OneFS as an essential part of CloudPools configuration. The account username, password, and URI that you used to establish an account with your cloud provider is required. You can also specify a proxy server to redirect CloudPools archive and retrieval traffic to and from a public cloud provider.
Prerequisites
If you are creating an Amazon C2S S3 account, you must perform the following steps using the OneFS CLI before creating the account:
In the
Create a Cloud Storage Account
dialog box,
Connection Settings:
Enter In the
Name or Alias field, enter a name for the account.
In the
Type drop-down menu, select a type of cloud account. Choices are
Dell EMC
PowerScale,
Dell EMC ECS Appliance,
Microsoft Azure,
Amazon S3,
Amazon C2S S3,
Google Cloud Platform, and
Alibaba Cloud.
In the
Create a Cloud Storage Account
dialog box, complete the
Cloud account information:
Table 1. Cloud Account InformationThe following table displays the cloud account specifications for each field.
Field
Action
Required for
URI
Enter the fully qualified URI for the account. The URI must use the HTTPS protocol, and match the URI used to set up the account with your cloud provider.
All account types
Username
Enter the cloud provider account username. This username should have been set up with the cloud provider.
Dell EMC
PowerScale
Dell EMC ECS Appliance
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Alibaba Cloud
Key
Enter the password or secret key that is associated with the cloud provider account username.
Dell EMC
PowerScale
Dell EMC ECS Appliance
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Alibaba Cloud
Proxy
If you have defined one or more network proxies, and want to use one for this cloud account, select the name from the proxy.
The account ID provided when the Amazon S3 account was created.
Amazon S3
Telemetry reporting bucket
The bucket on Amazon S3 that stores billing reports. Ensure that the bucket is configured to allow OneFS CloudPools to access it.
Amazon S3
Storage region
The region that stores the data. The provider assigns this value when creating the account.
Optional for:
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud
For Amazon C2S S3 accounts only, complete the
Credential server information:
Option
Description
URI
Enter a fully qualified URI for Amazon C2S S3 account credential server.
Agency
Agency name required to connect to an Amazon C2S S3 Access Portal (CAP or Token Vending Machine (TVM)).
Mission
Mission name required to connect to an Amazon C2S S3 Access Portal.
Role
Role name required to connect to an Amazon C2S S3 Access Portal.
Certificate
Name or id of a certificate to connect to an Amazon C2S S3 Access Portal. Import the certificate using the
isi certificate authority and
isi cloud certificate import commands.
Proxy
Name of id of a proxy to connect to an Amazon C2S S3 Access Portal. The proxy is created using
isi proxy create CLI.
Click the
Connect Account button.
The
Create a Cloud Storage Account
dialog box closes, and the new cloud account appears in the
Cloud Storage Accounts list. The Name, Type, State, Username, and URI associated with the account is displayed.
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