Choose the ingest tier

The default ingest tier for HCP is primary running storage. If you have HCP S Series Node on your HCP system, you can select S Series storage pools as the ingest tier of a service plan. This means that all objects ingested through namespaces under that service plan are written directly to S Series Nodes rather than primary running storage. Regardless of the ingest tier, HCP keeps all object metadata on primary running storage.

If one or more namespaces on the service plan have ingested data through CIFS, NFS, or WebDAV, the service plan ingest tier cannot be changed to HCP S Series. Likewise, NFS, CIFS, and WebDAV cannot be enabled on namespaces that have HCP S Series set as the ingest tier.

Note: The following services do not process objects ingested or tiered to S Series storage: Compression/Encryption, Content Verification, Duplicate Elimination, Shredding, hardware encryption, Capacity Balancing, and Scavenging.

Select primary running storage as the ingest tier

To select the primary running storage as the ingest tier:

1.On the left side of the Storage page, click the Service Plans tab.

2.On the Service Plans panel, click the table row that corresponds to the service plan for which you want to configure a new storage tier.

3.At the top of the panel that opens, click the Tiers tab.

4.On the Tiers panel, click the tier you want to modify.

The Edit Tier wizard opens.

5.Select Primary running as the ingest tier.

Note: Selecting Primary running as the ingest tier deselects all HCP S Series options. You cannot have both Primary running and HCP S Series as the ingest tier.

6.In the Data field, select the number of data copies you want to have in your ingest tier at all times.

7.In the Metadata Copies on Primary Storage field, select the number of object metadata copies you want to keep on primary running storage at all times.

8.Click Next.

9.On the Review page in the wizard, review the storage tier configuration settings that you specified in the wizard.

10.Take one of the following options:

oIf the information you entered is correct, click Finish.

oIf the information you entered is incorrect, us the Previous and Next buttons to navigate through the pages of the wizard and make the changes you want. When you're satisfied with the configuration settings you've entered, click Finish.

Select S Series storage pools as your ingest tier

To select an S Series pool, or pools, as your ingest tier:

1.On the left side of the Storage page, click the Service Plans tab.

2.On the Service Plans panel, click the table row that corresponds to the service plan for which you want to configure a new storage tier.

3.At the top of the panel that opens, click the Tiers tab.

4.On the Tiers panel, click the tier you want to modify.

The Edit Tier wizard opens.

5.Select the S Series pools you want to target as the ingest tier.

Note: Selecting HCP S Series as the ingest tier deselects Primary running. You cannot have both primary running storage and S Series storage as the ingest tier. If you have the CIFS, NFS, or WebDAV protocol enabled on any namespace that's using the service plan, you cannot select HCP S Series as the ingest tier.

6.From the Data drop down field, select the number of copies you want to have in your ingest tier at all times. You can have a different number of copies for each pool.

7.From the Primary Storage panel, take one of the following steps:

oIf you want to remove all data existing on primary running storage prior to the change in ingest tier and move it to your S Series storage, deselect Keep current data on primary.

oIf you want to keep all data existing on primary running storage prior to the change in ingest tier on primary running storage, leave Keep current data on primary selected and select the number of copies of object data you want to keep of that data on primary running storage at all times.

8.From the Primary Storage panel Metadata dropdown field, select the number of copies of object metadata you want to keep on primary running storage at all times.

9.Click Next.

10.On the Review page in the wizard, review the storage tier configuration settings that you specified in the wizard.

11.Take one of the following options:

oIf the information you entered is correct, click Finish.

oIf the information you entered is incorrect, us the Previous and Next buttons to navigate through the pages of the wizard and make the changes you want. When you're satisfied with the configuration settings you've entered, click Finish.

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