Administering Remote Targets

Data Fabric provides rule-based automated tiering functionality that allows you to seamlessly integrate with third party cloud object storage as an additional storage tier in the data fabric cluster to store file data that is rarely accessed or archived data, which is referred to as cold data. See

A cold tier is referred to as remote target on the Data Fabric UI.

The remote storage where cold data can be offloaded is called a remote target.

A remote target has a bucket on the third party cloud store where volume data is offloaded based on the policy configured by the fabric manager.

Volume data in 64KB data chunks is packed into 8MB sized objects and offloaded to the bucket on the tier and the corresponding volume metadata is stored in a visible tier-volume as HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables on the data fabric cluster. During writes and reads, volume data is recalled to the data fabric cluster, if necessary. Data written to the volume is periodically moved to the remote target, releasing the disk space on the filesystem.

You can associate a volume with a remote target.

For cold data, you can offload your cluster data to public, private, and hybrid clouds. You can offload data to remote cloud from vendors such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cleversafe, Hitachi HCP, and Minio. You can tap into cloud-scale capacity for cold data.