Planning for cloud services

Proper planning is one of the most important activities that you need to carry out for successful implementation of cloud services on the IBM Storage Scale cluster.

Hardware requirements for cloud services
You must meet certain hardware requirements to be able to install and use cloud services on the IBM Storage Scale cluster.
Software requirements for cloud services
You must meet certain software requirements to be able to install and use cloud services on the IBM Storage Scale cluster.
Network considerations for cloud services
This topic describes the network considerations that you need to follow for installing cloud services on your IBM Storage Scale cluster.
Cluster node considerations for cloud services
This topic describes the cluster considerations that need to be followed before you install cloud services on the IBM Storage Scale cluster.
IBM Cloud Object Storage considerations
The following information describes about the points that you need to consider before you use IBM Cloud® Object Storage as the object storage provider.
Firewall recommendations for cloud services
This topic describes the firewall recommendations that you need to follow to be able to implement cloud services on your cluster.
Performance considerations
While default configurations on the IBM Storage Scale and cloud services work for the migration and recall of data, some adjustments might be required for optimized performance. This topic addresses some of such adjustments that will likely have the most significant effect on performance.
Security considerations
You can integrate cloud services with IBM® Security Key Lifecycle Manager (ISKLM) to provide security to the data that is stored on the cloud storage tier, or you can use the native key manager provided with the cloud services.
Planning for maintenance activities
cloud services has five key maintenance activities that need to take place. Some are for keeping normal day-to-day operations going and some are contingencies for service restoration in case of a disaster.
Backup considerations for Transparent cloud tiering
You must adhere to some guidelines for backing up files that need to be migrated to a cloud storage tier.
Quota support for tiering
transparent cloud tiering supports container-level quotas in ways that are described here.
Client-assisted recalls
Non-gateway nodes can have an extended client which can service the recalls locally.

Parent topic: Planning