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.