PowerScale OneFS API Reference

CloudPools

CloudPools extends the capabilities of OneFS by enabling you to specify data to be moved to lower-cost cloud storage. CloudPools can seamlessly connect to EMC-based cloud storage systems and to popular third-party providers, Amazon S3, Google, and Microsoft Azure.

CloudPools is a licensed module that is built on the SmartPools file pool policy framework, which gives you granular control of file storage on your cluster. CloudPools extends this file storage control to one or more cloud repositories, which act as additional tiers of OneFS storage.

Prior to the introduction of CloudPools, SmartPools enabled the grouping of nodes into storage pools that are called node pools, and the classification of node pools as different storage tiers. SmartPools includes a policy framework that allows you to segregate files into logical groups called file pools, and to store those file pools in specific storage tiers.

CloudPools expands the SmartPools framework by treating a cloud repository as an additional storage tier. This enables you to move older or seldom-used data to cloud storage and free up space on your cluster.

As with SmartPools, you define files to be stored in the cloud by creating file pool policies. These policies use file matching criteria to determine which file pools are to be moved to the cloud.