Preparing to configure cloud-container storage pools for IBM Cloud Object Storage with Swift (off premises)

Before you configure cloud-container storage pools to use IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Cloud off premises using Swift, you must obtain configuration information from the IBM Cloud Object Storage page.

About this task

Use the credentials from your IBM Cloud account when you configure the storage pools in the Operations Center or with the DEFINE STGPOOL command.

Procedure

  1. Create an IBM Cloud account by following the instructions in the IBM Cloud Docs section.
  2. Obtain your IBM Cloud credentials:
    1. Go to the IBM Cloud Object Storage page and log in with your account credentials.
    2. Select the account and cluster that you want to configure.
    3. In the Account section, click View Credentials
    4. In the Account Credentials section, locate the Public Authentication Endpoint, Username, and API Key fields. Record the values in those fields so that you can use them when you configure storage pools.
  3. If you plan to configure storage pools by using the Add Storage Pool wizard in the Operations Center, use the following values for the parameters:
    • Cloud type: IBM Cloud Object Storage - Swift API
    • User name: username
    • Password: API_key
    • URL: public_authentication_endpoint
  4. If you plan to configure storage pools by using the DEFINE STGPOOL command, use the following values for the command parameters:
    • CLOUDTYPE: IBMCLOUDSWIFT
    • IDENTITY: username
    • PASSWORD: API_key
    • CLOUDURL: public_authentication_endpoint

What to do next

Configure cloud-container storage pools for IBM Cloud by following the instructions in Configuring a cloud-container storage pool for data storage.