Veritas Access Appliance Cloud Storage Tiering Solutions Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.1)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350

About moving Access Appliance on-premises data to different cloud services

The cloud as a tier feature for a file system lets you move data to different cloud services. The data is always written to the on-premises storage tier and then data can be moved to the cloud tier using a tiering mechanism. The cloud is used as a storage tier in a file system. File metadata including any attributes set on the file resides on-premises even though the file is moved to the cloud. The cloud as a tier feature is best used for moving infrequently accessed data to the cloud.

Once you configure cloud tiering in Access Appliance, data that is stored in the file system can be intelligently moved between the on-premises tier and the cloud tier.

Access Appliance moves the data from on-premises to the following cloud providers based on automated policy management:

  • Amazon Glacier - for storing data that is rarely accessed, and retrieval latency of several hours is acceptable (costs more to retrieve data).

    Amazon Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of infrequently used data.

    See Amazon Glacier considerations and retrieval options.

  • AWS S3 - for storing a variety of objects, mostly images and videos.

    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Services) stores unstructured data in the form of objects. Objects are organized into buckets (each owned by an AWS account) and identified within each bucket by a unique, user-assigned key.

    See AWS S3 considerations.

  • S3-compatible - for storing a variety of objects, mostly images and videos.

    S3-compatible is any third-party implementation of the Amazon S3 APIs.

    See S3-compatible considerations.

  • AWS GovCloud (US) - for storing sensitive data and regulated workloads, helping customers support their U.S. government compliance requirements.

  • Microsoft Azure

    See Moving Access Appliance on-premises data to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

  • Google cloud.