Creating cloud services

You must create at least one cloud services for each cloud account that is created. You can associate a single cloud services with only one cloud account but can use it with multiple file systems or file sets.

For data movement (sharing or tiering) commands, you must specify a Cloud service name to move data to the intended object storage if there is more than one Cloud service that is configured to the file system or file set. However, you do not have to specify a Cloud service name for these data movement commands if only one Cloud service is configured for a file system or file set.

Additionally, if you want to execute both tiering and sharing operations in your cloud services setup, you must define one Cloud service for tiering and another for sharing.
  • To create a Cloud service according to the cloud account that is created, issue a command similar to the following one:
    mmcloudgateway cloudService create   
                           --cloud-nodeclass TCTNodeClass1 --cloud-service-name mycloud
                           --cloud-service-type Tiering --account-name Cleversafe_cloud
    The system displays output similar to this:
    
mmcloudgateway: Sending the command to the first successful node starting with vmip51.gpfs.net
mmcloudgateway: This may take a while...
mmcloudgateway: Command completed successfully on vmi.gpfs.net.
mmcloudgateway: Command completed.
    Note: You can use this Cloud service only for tiering. If you want to use it for sharing, you can replace Tiering with Sharing.
  • To update cloud services, issue a command according to the following:
    
mmcloudgateway cloudService update --cloud-nodeclass cloud --cloud-service-name newServ --disable
    The system displays output similar to this:
    
mmcloudgateway: Sending the command to the first successful node starting with vmip51.gpfs.net
mmcloudgateway: This may take a while...
mmcloudgateway: Command completed successfully on vmip51.gpfs.net.
mmcloudgateway: Command completed.
  • To delete cloud services, issue a command according to the following:
    mmcloudgateway cloudService delete --cloud-nodeclass cloud --cloud-service-name newServ
    The system displays output similar to this:
    
mmcloudgateway: Sending the command to the first successful node starting with vmip51.gpfs.net
mmcloudgateway: This may take a while...
mmcloudgateway: Command completed successfully on vmip51.gpfs.net.
mmcloudgateway: Command completed.

Next step: Configuring cloud services with SKLM (optional).