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Hello and welcome to this short overview of the fabric pool setup wizard. New in storage grid 117. In the storage grid 117 GUI, the fabric pool wizard can always be accessed from the top bar of the GUI. The fabric pool setup wizard allows you to create all the components required to successfully tear data from on tap to storage grid. First, we will create a high availability group. If you have more than one gateway, the HA group would facilitate a non-disruptive failover between the gateways. In this lab, there is only one gateway. So, we'll select that instance. The HA group has a virtual IP address that you will specify here. This will be the IP address that ONAP will use to tear data to. We will now create an endpoint. This endpoint will provide S3 support on port 10443.I will accept the defaults. and move on to generating a certificate that is matching my endpoint name and HA IP address. There is no need to download the certificate as this information will be included in the final download file. Now we will create a tenant that will host the bucket for the ONAP tier data. I'll provide a tenant name, a password, and the bucket name. Downloading the ONAP settings. Here is the key point. This one file will have all the information required to connect on tap to storage grid successfully. The wizard will now continue to set up the best practice ILM rule for a bucket used as the target for fabric pool data. In new installs of 117, a storage pool per site is created automatically. If this is an upgrade from 116, you can leave the wizard to create a new storage pool or use a storage pool that's already created. If you leave the wizard, your progress is now lost. The LM policy in this case is a 2 plus one erasure coded which provides a good balance of protection overhead and performance. The wizard will also create a traffic classification policy. While this is optional, it does allow you to monitor only the traffic generated by fabric pool. Now we will switch to managing the ONAP cluster and configure it so that it can start tearing data to storage grid. We start by adding a cloud tier. All the information required by ONTAP can be found in the file provided by the storage git fabric pool wizard. The same file we downloaded earlier that includes the endpoint, the certificate, the port, the access keys, and the bucket name. In this example, the storage grid 117 bucket will become secondary fabric pool target for the volume selected. The primary target in this example is storage grid 116. We will now monitor the fabric pool traffic by using the traffic classification policy created by the storage grid fabric pool wizard. From the storage grid navigation sidebar, select support metricsand traffic classification policy. In this panel, you will notice an increase in number of put operations as data is tiered out. You will also notice a corresponding but smaller number of get operations as fabric pool checks if the data is being tiered out correctly. In this panel, you will notice the storage grid reports that the put object size is between 2 and 8 megabytes. As a matter of fact, the fabric pool write object size is always 4 megabytes while the read operations will vary in size. This concludes the demonstration of the fabric pool wizard functionality new in storage grid 117.
StorageGRID 11.7 introduces a new configuration wizard that prepares the grid for hosting a FabricPool/Cloud Tiering workload. Learn about the FabricPool configuration wizard, new in StorageGRID 11.7.