Preparing to configure cloud-container storage pools for AWS with S3 (off premises)

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Before you configure cloud-container storage pools to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) off premises with the Simple Storage Service (S3) protocol, you must obtain information from Amazon that is required for the configuration process.

About this task

AWS account credentials are different from Amazon account credentials. Use the credentials for your AWS account when you configure storage pools in the Operations Center or with the DEFINE STGPOOL command.

Restriction: The following restrictions apply.
  • You must manually create the buckets in AWS.
  • You must enter the data into AWS cloud bucket only with IBM Storage Protect, and do not change the data in the bucket or edit the configuration settings for the bucket after it is created.
  • By default, for storage pools that use AWS with the Amazon S3 protocol, data is encrypted by the IBM Storage Protect server, not by AWS bucket policies.

Procedure

  1. Sign up for an AWS account by going to the Amazon S3 page and clicking Create an AWS Account.
  2. Obtain your AWS credentials:
    1. Go to the Amazon S3 page and click Sign In to the Console.
    2. Select your name and select Security Credentials.
    3. Go to the Access Keys section to locate the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key fields. Record the values so that you can use them when you configure storage pools.
  3. If you plan to configure storage pools by using the Add Storage Pool wizard in the Operations Center, use the following values for the parameters:
    • Cloud type: Amazon - S3 API
    • Access key ID: access_key_id
    • Secret access key: secret_access_key
    • Region: Refer to the cloud provider's documentation to determine the URL that is used to reference your data.
      Note: IBM Storage Protect supports only virtual-hosted-style and path-style URLs, such as, https://bucketname.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com and https://s3.us.west-1.amazonaws.com.
    • Bucket name: Specify the bucket name that is manually created.
  4. To define the cloud-container storage pool, issue the DEFINE CONNECTION and DEFINE STGPOOL commands with the following values:
    • CLOUDTYPE: S3
    • CLOUDURL: Refer to the cloud provider's documentation to determine the URL that is used to reference your data. IBM Storage Protect supports only virtual-hosted-style and path-style URLs.
    • Bucket Name: Specify the bucket name that is created.
    • IDENTITY: access_key_id
    • PASSWORD: secret_access_key

What to do next

Configure cloud-container storage pools for AWS by following the instructions in Configuring a cloud-container storage pool for data storage.