Support of Google cloud storage platform for AFM to cloud object storage

With Google Cloud Platform support, data can be synchronized between AFM, S3 object to Google Cloud Platform storage.

AFM to cloud object storage fileset can be configured to use Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Platforms backend object storage server by using -gcs parameter during creation of the AFM fileset. After a fileset is created by using -gcs option, AFM access GCS backend storage server by using supported APIs. Here, Google cloud storage APIs are different than the traditional S3 API.

After a fileset is configured with GCS, the fileset can only be used for GCS backend server. AFM internally determines which API to use for communicating to the target cloud object storage server for all the communications.

All the modes and operations are supported by the Google Cloud Object Storage server backend.

Note:

  • While you use Google Cloud Storage platform server as backend cloud object storage server, AFM is unable to create new bucket. User with an administrator privilege must create bucket at the object storage server before user creates AFM to cloud object storage fileset. This preceding limitation only exists with the GCS backend and not with other supported cloud object storage server.

  • Failover of AFM to cloud object storage fileset that is configured by using -gcs option cannot be failover to another backend.