Creating a Remote Target

Create a remote target to offload cold data.

Prerequisites

You must be a fabric manager to perform this task.

About this task

You can create one or more remote targets to offload cold data to the remote target.

Follow the steps given below to create a remote target.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Select Fabric manager option from the dropdown on the Home page.
  3. Click Fabric Administration seen on the Home page.
  4. Select from the fabrics dropdown the fabric for which you wish to add a remote target.
  5. Scroll down to the Remote targets card.
    NOTE
    Alternatively, you can click Global namespace, click the fabric link in the table view, and navigate to the Remote targets tab for the fabric.
  6. Click Create remote target.
  7. Enter the Name for the remote target.
  8. Select a cloud provider from the Vendor dropdown.
  9. Enter the URL.
  10. Select the Bucket.
  11. Enter the Region.
  12. Enter the Access key.
  13. Enter the Secret key.
  14. Click Create.

Results

The remote target is created successfully.

The remote target can be used as a cold tier for data tiering. You can associate a volume with the remote target to offload the cold data from the volume on to the remote target.