To perform a cloud storage registration

1. Navigate to Settings > Cloud storage registration. Click Add.
2. Enter the details in the Add cloud registration form. Select the cloud service provider. Enter the required input fields for the selected cloud service provider.
3. Click Add to add a cloud subscription for the selected cloud provider.

To create a file system

1. Navigate to File systems and click Create to create a file system.
2. In the Create file system form, enter the name and size of the file system. You can click Advanced to specify other details such as layout, and block size.
3. Select a storage pool for the on-premises storage and click Create.

To add a cloud tier

1. Navigate to File systems. Click on the name of the file system. Select the Storage tab to add the cloud tier.
2. Select Add cloud tier. In the Add cloud tier form, specify a name for the cloud tier and provide other details, such as cloud subscription, service provider and region name.

   • For AWS: Select the tier type as Glacier or S3.

   • For AWS GovCloud (US): Select the tier type as S3.

   • For Azure: You can add additional Azure storage accounts to the same cloud tier to expand the capacity of the cloud tier beyond 500 TB. Simply repeat this procedure with a different Azure storage account, and specify the same cloud tier name to add an additional storage account to the cloud tier. You provide the storage account information when you add the cloud subscription. Storage account information is contained in the cloud subscription.

   • For Google: The access credentials are present in the .json file.

     Select the tier type: Coldline, Multi-Regional, Nearline, Regional

   • For S3-compatible: Enter the access key, secret key, and the REST endpoint of the S3 server.

3. Click Add to add the cloud tier.
4. View the View details panel for the status of the task.