Arranging your storage

Your storage environment might need to be adjusted to match the requirements of a container deployment.

• If necessary, rearrange the storage or use another technique to provide a single top-level directory.
  • One single top-level directory is required for the persistent volume definition that corresponds to the Content Platform Engine file store volume for the Content Platform Engine container deployment.
  • If you are deploying Content Search Services, another single top-level directory is needed for the persistent volume definition that corresponds to the index volume for content index data for the Content Search Services container deployment.
• For existing file storage areas such as standard file stores and advanced storage area devices, and for index areas, the best practice is to have a single top-level directory for all file storage areas and another single top-level directory for all index areas. If this best practice setup was not followed in the traditional WebSphere® Application Server environment, you must rearrange the storage or use other techniques to provide a single top-level directory.
• Check the folder ownership to ensure that the top-level directories and all of the subfolders follow the storage permissions and ownership guidance in Storage considerations.
  This ownership enables the Content Platform Engine and Content Search Services containers to access the file system. If the WebSphere Application Server continues to run with the containers to manage the Content Cortex domain, you must also add the user account that represents the Content Platform Engine Operating System User (cpe_os_user), formerly known as the Bootstrap User, on the WebSphere Application Server system to the owning group in the OpenShift® Cloud Platform environment.
• (For each object store in your environment) Determine the setup of your storage area:
  1. Log in to the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine.
  2. In the domain navigation pane, select the object store.
  3. In the object store navigation pane, click Administrative > Storage.
     • For Advanced Storage, open the Advanced Storage Devices folder.
     • For File Systems, open the File System Storage Devices folder.
     • For legacy file systems, open the Storage Areas folder.
  4. Record all settings for your storage configuration.
     Check the Configuration tab or the General tab for the Root directory path value. All relevant files and folders are located in this folder.

     For fixed storage areas, note the location of the fixed content device and its staging area.

• Determine your index area configuration for Content Search Services:
  1. For each index area that is associated with the object store, access the index area properties.
  2. In the domain navigation pane of the administration console, click the object store.
  3. In the object store navigation pane, select the Administrative > Index Areas folder.
  4. In the General tab for each index area, note the location that is specified by the root directory. An index area can be on a local file system as opposed to a network-shared drive.
  5. On the Index tab, note the indexes that exist for the index area.