Overview for creating an advanced storage area

An advanced storage area connects to one or more advanced storage devices to provide high availability content storage and disaster recovery for an object store.

Before you begin

You must configure all the advanced storage devices for an advanced storage area before you create the advanced storage area. You can delete advanced storage devices from the advanced storage area.

You can add advanced storage devices after the advanced storage area is created.

Procedure

To create an advanced storage area:

  1. Configure the devices.
    Create and configure the advanced storage devices by using tools that are supplied by your cloud storage provider or storage device vendors. You are responsible for the necessary installation, network connectivity, and administration to make an advanced storage device available to the servers in the Content Cortex domain.

    For information on security for the devices, see File system device directory security.

  2. Create each advanced storage device.
    Run the appropriate wizard in the administration console to create each advanced storage device.

    See , Creating a file system storage device.

  3. Create the storage area.
    Run the New Advanced Storage Area wizard in the administration console to create a storage area that uses one or more advanced storage devices.
    See Creating an advanced storage area.
    Tip: An advanced storage device can be shared by multiple advanced storage areas within an object store. It can be convenient to share storage devices, but careful planning is required. If you decide to share advanced storage devices, consider the shared devices when you define the default storage for classes, perform backups, design disaster recovery scenarios, and so on.