Setting up object stores for FabricPool in a MetroCluster configuration

If you are running ONTAP 9.7 or later, you can set up a mirrored FabricPool on a MetroCluster configuration to tier cold data to object stores in two different fault zones.

Before you begin

The MetroCluster configuration is set up and properly configured.
Two objects stores are set up on the appropriate MetroCluster sites.
Containers are configured on each of the object stores.
IP spaces are created or identified on the two MetroCluster configurations and their names match.

About this task

FabricPool in MetroCluster requires that the underlying mirrored aggregate and the associated object store configuration must be owned by the same MetroCluster configuration.
You cannot attach an aggregate to an object store that is created in the remote MetroCluster site.
You must create object store configurations on the MetroCluster configuration that owns the aggregate.

Procedure

Specify the object store configuration information on each MetroCluster site by using the storage object-store config create command.

In this example, FabricPool is required on only one cluster in the MetroCluster configuration. Two object store configurations are created for that cluster, one for each object store bucket.

storage aggregate
    object-store config create -object-store-name mcc1-ostore-config-s1 -provider-type SGWS -server
    <SGWS-server-1> -container-name <SGWS-bucket-1> -access-key <key> -secret-password <password> -encrypt
    <true|false> -provider <provider-type> -is-ssl-enabled <true|false> ipspace
    <IPSpace>

storage aggregate object-store config create -object-store-name mcc1-ostore-config-s2
    -provider-type SGWS -server <SGWS-server-2> -container-name <SGWS-bucket-2> -access-key <key> -secret-password <password> -encrypt <true|false> -provider <provider-type>
    -is-ssl-enabled <true|false> ipspace <IPSpace>

This example sets up FabricPool on the second cluster in the MetroCluster configuration.

storage aggregate
    object-store config create -object-store-name mcc2-ostore-config-s1 -provider-type SGWS -server
    <SGWS-server-1> -container-name <SGWS-bucket-3> -access-key <key> -secret-password <password> -encrypt
    <true|false> -provider <provider-type> -is-ssl-enabled <true|false> ipspace
    <IPSpace>

storage aggregate
    object-store config create -object-store-name mcc2-ostore-config-s2 -provider-type SGWS -server
    <SGWS-server-2> -container-name <SGWS-bucket-4> -access-key <key> -secret-password <password> -encrypt
    <true|false> -provider <provider-type> -is-ssl-enabled <true|false> ipspace
    <IPSpace>