Access Pools
View information about the access pools in object storage systems.
Applications such as IBM Storage Protect that use IBM Cloud Object Storage, connect to the storage system by using the access pools.
By grouping COS Accesser nodes into access pools, you can quickly deploy vaults to a set of nodes.
- View the different sites that the COS Accesser nodes in a pool are distributed to and view the number of nodes at each site.
- View the number of vaults that depend on each of the access pools.
- Acknowledged
- Shows whether a user marked the status of an access pool as acknowledged. An acknowledged status indicates that the status was reviewed and is either resolved or can be ignored.
- Mirrors
- The number of mirrors that depend on the access pool.
- Protocol
- The access protocol that is configured on the access pool for communication between the COS Accesser nodes and the COS Slicestor nodes. All the COS Accesser nodes in an access pool use the same protocol, for example, OpenStack Object Storage, Simple Object, or Cloud Storage Object.
- Site
- The location, such as the geographical location or the building, of the COS Accesser nodes in the access pool. To ensure high
availability for the vault data in IBM
Cloud Object Storage, you can distribute the nodes to
multiple sites.
The number of site columns that are shown depends on the number of sites that the nodes are distributed to. For example, if the nodes in the access pool are distributed to three sites, then three site columns are shown on the Access Pools page. For each site, the number of COS Accesser nodes that are distributed to that site is shown.
- Status
- The status of the access pool. Use the status to determine the condition of the access pool, and
if any actions must be taken.
A Warning status is shown when one or more of the sites that is associated with the access pool is unavailable. An Error status is shown when all the sites are unavailable. To ensure high availability for the vault data in IBM Cloud Object Storage, take immediate action to resolve site failures.
- Vaults
- The number of vaults that depend on the access pool.
A vault is a collection of data that is stored in one logical container, across a set of COS Slicestor nodes. A vault can be deployed to one or more access pools.