Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 Cloud Storage Tiering Solutions Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360

Configuring the cloud gateway

A cloud gateway enables you to register one or more cloud services to the cluster. You can then add the cloud service as a cloud tier for a file system. Whenever you add a tier to a file system, you need to add a cloud service for the cloud tier.

You can add more than one cloud tier to the same file system and the cloud tiers can be associated with different services

Note:

Before adding the cloud service, make sure that the pool is created on the setup because of the dependency on shared location which gets created during the first pool creation.

To add the cloud service

  • Add the cloud service.
    Storage> cloud addservice service_name service_provider

    For example:

    Storage> cloud addservice service_name service_provider=AWS

    You are prompted to provide Amazon S3 subscription credentials.

If you want to add a cloud subscription for S3 compatible where the Access S3 server is started with SSL, you must add Access S3 server cluster's certificate bundle to the trust store of the cluster where you want to add the cloud subscription.

Perform the following steps if you want add S3 compatible cloud subscription where S3 server is running with SSL mode:

  1. Login to the Access Appliance GUI on the cluster where S3+SSL service is started.

  2. Go to Settings > Security management> Certificates tab. Click Download root certificate.

  3. Go to the elevated shell of the management console node of the cluster on which S3 compatible cloud subscription needs to be added and copy this bundle to /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/.

  4. Run update-ca-trust command from the same shell to update the trust store.

    # cp cluster1_bundle.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
# update-ca-trust

  5. In the Access Appliance GUI, go to Settings > Cloud storage registration. Click Add to add the S3 compatible cloud subscription.

To display the cloud services

  • Display the added cloud services.
    Storage> cloud listservice service_name

To remove the cloud service

  • Remove the cloud service.
    Storage> cloud removeservice service_name