Microsoft Azure

This section informs you how to create account for Microsoft Azure.

For Azure, cloud services tier or share data only to 'cool' storage tier by default. Other Azure tiers such as hot, premium, and archive are not supported. Customization is not supported.

Similarly, cloud services tier or share data only as a 'block' blob by default. Other blob types such as append and page blobs are not supported. Customization is not supported.

Complete the following steps:

To create an azure cloud account, issue the following command:

mmcloudgateway account create --cloud-nodeclass tct --account-name azureaccount --cloud-type 
azure --username <azure-storage-account-name> --pwd-file <passwd-file>

The system displays the following output:

mmcloudgateway: Sending the command to the first successful node starting with
jupiter-vm716.pok.stglabs.ibm.com
mmcloudgateway: This may take a while...
mmcloudgateway: Command completed successfully on jupiter-vm716.pok.stglabs.ibm.com.
mmcloudgateway: You can now delete the password file '/tmp/cloudPW' 
mmcloudgateway: Command completed

Note: For Azure, the --username represents the storage account name.

To modify the cloud account (for example, to change the username to MyTct) issue the following command:

mmcloudgateway account update --cloud-nodeclass tct --account-name azureaccount --username MyTct

To delete a cloud account, issue the following command:

mmcloudgateway account delete --cloud-nodeclass tct --account-name azureaccount