Configuring and tuning your system for 
cloud services
This topic describes the procedure for configuring and tuning your IBM Spectrum Scale™ node for
cloud services.
- Designating the cloud services nodes
This topic describes how to designatea node as
cloud services node in the IBM
Spectrum Scale cluster. - Associating a file system with cloud services nodes
After you designate thecloud services nodes, you must associate
an IBM
Spectrum Scale file system with these nodes. - Pre-validating the cloud account settings
Before you create a cloud account, verify that the settings that you are going to use for creating a cloud storage tier are correct. This ensures that no error messages are displayed while you create a cloud storage account. This is an optional procedure. - Creating a cloud storage account
You can use thecloud services node to configure a cloud
object storage account. - Enabling a Transparent cloud tiering policy
After you create a cloud storage account, it is necessary to install a policy to migrate or recall files to and from the cloud storage. - Enabling a policy for Cloud data sharing export service
This topic describes how to create a policy for export, a service provided by the IBM Spectrum Scale cloud service, Cloud data sharing. - Tuning cloud services parameters
This topic describes the procedure for tuning Transparent cloud tiering parameters in IBM Spectrum Scale. - Integrating cloud services metrics with the performance monitoring tool
This topic describes the procedure for integratingcloud services
server nodes with the performance monitoring tool. - Enabling cloud service performance monitoring metrics on the GUI
This topic describes the procedure for enabling performance metrics on the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI. - Configuring cloud services with SKLM
You need to perform certain configurations to be able to use the security features of IBM Spectrum Scale.
Parent topic: Configuring