About storage components

HCP uses storage components to represent the storage available to it for storing objects.

A storage component is a set of one or more access points (buckets, containers, or mount points) that share a common endpoint. An endpoint is either a specific type of HCP storage (primary running or primary spindown) or a specific externally addressable storage device or storage service such as an S Series Node or Amazon S3. Each storage component has a specific set of data availability, price, and performance characteristics.

HCP uses storage components to provide you with an interface to:

Configure HCP to provide the information that HCP needs to access specific extended storage devices and cloud storage service endpoints.

Configure HCP to monitor, manage, and use all of the storage that is represented by one or more storage components of the same type as a single storage pool.

Monitor the health, availability, capacity, and usage of the storage that is represented by each component (primary running storage, primary spindown storage, S Series storage, and each extended storage device and cloud service endpoint) and appropriately provision storage.

Retire S Series or extended storage that is represented by a single storage component, or retire all of the storage that is represented by the components in a single storage pool.

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