Establishing an S3 Cloud Object Storage account

Data Migrator Administration Guide for Hitachi NAS Platform

Version
15.1.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-92HNAS005-33

Before adding an S3 Cloud Object Storage account to the NAS server, you must create an S3 storage account and add access and secret keys. This information is required as part of the NAS server cloud account process.

Note: The procedure below is only suitable for IBM Cloud Object Storage.
  1. Navigate to https://cloud.ibm.com/ and log in with your username and password.
  2. Create a new storage account and ensure that you create access and secret keys for the user. See the S3 Cloud Object Storage help and documentation for details.
  3. Create a new bucket to use as a cloud destination. See the S3 Cloud Object Storage help and documentation for details.
  4. Store the user, key and bucket details for configuring the NAS server.