About the cloud gateway

You can configure Veritas Access as a gateway to cloud storage. You can register cloud subscriptions to your Veritas Access cluster. Multiple cloud subscriptions can be attached, so you need to assign a service name to each subscription. You can then use the service name to attach the subscription to a scale-out file system as a storage tier.

The following clouds can be added as storage tiers for a scale-out file system:

• Amazon S3

• Alibaba

• AWS

• AWS Gov Cloud (US)

• Azure

• Google

• IBM Cloud Object Storage

• Veritas Access S3

• Any S3-compatible storage provider

The cloud as a tier feature lets you have hybrid storage that uses both on-premises storage and public or private cloud storage. After the gateway and tier are configured, you can use the cloud as a tier feature to move data between the cloud and the on-premises storage. The files in the cloud, like the files on the on-premises storage, are accessible using the NFS, S3, CIFS and FTP protocols. Access of the data present in the cloud tier is transparent to the application.

See Configuring the cloud as a tier for scale-out file systems

Before you provision cloud storage, you set up cloud subscriptions. To set up the cloud gateway, you attach cloud subscriptions to your Veritas Access cluster. You need to have the subscription credentials to add the cloud subscriptions. You need different subscription credentials based on your cloud provider.