Set up Alibaba Cloud Object Storage as the ONTAP FabricPool cloud tier

12/18/2024 Contributors

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

A BlueXP tiering license is required when tiering to Alibaba Cloud Object Storage.
On AFF and FAS systems and ONTAP Select, FabricPool supports the following Alibaba Object Storage Service classes:
- Alibaba Object Storage Service Standard
- Alibaba Object Storage Service Infrequent Access
  
  Alibaba Cloud: Introduction to storage classes

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

Steps

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
```
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.

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