Economy storage components

HCP can use HCP S Series Nodes as an alternative to primary storage or for tiering purposes. To connect the S Series Nodes to the HCP system, you need to add them to the HCP system on the Hardware page of the System Management Console. For more information on adding HCP S Series Nodes, see Creating an HCP S Series Node component.

HCP can be configured to write directly to economy storage by changing the ingest tier of a service plan to one or multiple HCP S Series Nodes. This does not remove the need for primary storage. Primary running storage still keeps all custom metadata of objects tiered to economy storage. For more information on writing directly to economy storage, see Choose the ingest tier.

Once an economy storage component had been added, you can use the Storage page to view information about the storage component’s health status, availability, and capacity. You can also use the Storage page to view current and historical storage usage statistics for each individual economy storage component.

Economy storage has a storage capacity limit. You can use the Storage page to monitor the health and usage of economy storage components and determine when you need to add more S Series Nodes to the HCP system.

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