Adding a cloud tier
You can use Storage Manager to add a cloud tier to an SSD aggregate or a virtual machine disk (VMDK) aggregate. Cloud tiers provide storage for infrequently used data.
Before you begin
You must have the access key ID and secret key to connect to the object store.
You must have created a bucket inside the object store.
Network connectivity must exist between the cluster and the cloud tier.
If communication between the cloud tier and the cluster is encrypted using SSL or TLS, the required certificates must be installed.
About this task
The following object stores can be used as cloud tiers:
ONTAP S3
- StorageGRID
Alibaba Cloud (Starting with Storage Manager 9.6)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Commercial Cloud Service (C2S)
Microsoft Azure Blob storage
IBM Cloud
Google Cloud
Azure Stack, which is an on-premises Azure service, is not supported.
If you want to use any object store as a cloud tier, other than StorageGRID, you must have the FabricPool capacity license. You can add the license by clicking Add License.
If you want to use an IBM Cloud Object Storage environment (such as Cleversafe), with FabricPool, you should specify a certification authority (CA) certificate. You can specify the CA certificate by moving the Object Store Certificate toggle button and specifying the certificate credentials.
- Click .
- Click +Add Cloud Tier.
- Select your cloud tier provider from the drop-down list.
- Fill in all of the required areas including port to use and bucker name.
- Select the local tier to add the cloud tier to.
- Select the intercluster LIFs to use.
- Click Save.