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Set up Alibaba Cloud Object Storage as the cloud tier

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If you are running ONTAP 9.6 or later, you can set up Alibaba Cloud Object Storage as the cloud tier for FabricPool.

Considerations for using Alibaba Cloud Object Storage with FabricPool

  • You might need a FabricPool license.

    Newly ordered AFF systems come with 10 TB of free capacity for using FabricPool. If you need additional capacity on an AFF system, if you use Alibaba Cloud Object Storage on a non-AFF system, or if you upgrade from an existing cluster, you need a FabricPool license.

  • On AFF and FAS systems and ONTAP Select, FabricPool supports the following Alibaba Object Storage Service classes:

Contact your NetApp sales representative for information about storage classes not listed.

Steps

  1. Specify the Alibaba Cloud Object Storage configuration information by using the storage aggregate object-store config create command with the -provider-type AliCloud parameter.

    • The storage aggregate object-store config create command fails if ONTAP cannot access Alibaba Cloud Object Storage with the provided information.

    • You use the -access-key parameter to specify the access key for authorizing requests to the Alibaba Cloud Object Storage object store.

    • If the Alibaba Cloud Object Storage password is changed, you should update the corresponding password stored in ONTAP immediately.

      Doing so enables ONTAP to access the data in Alibaba Cloud Object Storage without interruption.

    storage aggregate object-store config create my_ali_oss_store_1
-provider-type AliCloud -server oss-us-east-1.aliyuncs.com
-container-name my-ali-oss-bucket -access-key DXJRXHPXHYXA9X31X3JX

  2. Display and verify the Alibaba Cloud Object Storage configuration information by using the storage aggregate object-store config show command.

    The storage aggregate object-store config modify command enables you to modify the Alibaba Cloud Object Storage configuration information for FabricPool.