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Contents 1. About Acronis Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 1 Supported Storage Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Accessing S3 Buckets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 Managing Buckets via the Acronis Storage User Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1.
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CHAPTER 1 About Acronis Storage Acronis Storage is a software-defined storage solution that allows you to quickly and easily transform low-cost commodity storage hardware and network equipment into protected enterprise-grade storage like SAN or NAS. Acronis Storage is optimized for storing large amounts of data and provides data redundancy (replication and erasure coding), high availability, self-healing, and storage sharing.
CHAPTER 2 Accessing S3 Buckets To access Acronis Storage S3 buckets, get the following information (credentials) from your system administrator: • user panel IP address, • DNS name of the S3 endpoint, • access key ID, • secret access key. Acronis Storage allows you to access your S3 data in several ways: • via Acronis Storage user panel; • via a third-party S3 application like Cyberduck, Mountain Duck,Backup Exec, etc. 2.
2.1. Managing Buckets via the Acronis Storage User Panel http://:8888/s3/. 2. On the Acronis Storage login screen, enter your credentials in the corresponding fields and click LOG IN. Once you log in to the web interface, you will see the Buckets screen with the list of your buckets. From here, you can manage buckets as well as folders and files stored inside the buckets. To log out, click the user icon in the upper right corner of any screen and click Log out.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 2.1.2 Adding, Deleting, and Listing S3 Buckets On the Buckets screen: • To add a new bucket, click Add bucket, specify a name, and click Add. Use bucket names that comply with DNS naming conventions. For more information on bucket naming, see S3 Bucket and Key Naming Policies on page 18. • To delete a bucket, select it and click Delete. • To list bucket contents, click a bucket name in the list. 2.1.2.
2.1. Managing Buckets via the Acronis Storage User Panel • To delete a folder, select it and click Delete. • To list folder contents, click a folder name. 2.1.4 Uploading and Downloading Files On the bucket or folder contents screen: • To upload files to S3, click Upload and choose files to upload. • To download files, select them and click Download.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 2.1.5 Obtaining and Validating File Certificates Acronis Storage offers integration with the Acronis Notary service to leverage blockchain notarization and ensure the immutability of data saved in S3 buckets. To certify files stored in your buckets, ask your system administrator to enable the Acronis Notary service for the buckets. On the bucket’s or folder’s contents screen: • To get a notarization certificate for a file, select it and click Get Certificate.
2.2. Accessing S3 Storage with CyberDuck 1. In CyberDuck, click Open Connection. 2. Specify your credentials: • The DNS name of the S3 endpoint. • The Access Key ID and, the Password field, the secret access key of an object storage user. By default, the connection is established over HTTPS. To use CyberDuck over HTTP, you must install a special S3 profile. 3. Once the connection is established, click File > New Folder to create a bucket. 4. Specify a name for the new bucket, and then click Create.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets The new bucket will appear in CyberDuck. You can manage it and its contents. 2.2.1 Managing S3 Bucket Versions Versioning is a way of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your S3 bucket. With versioning, you can easily recover from both unintended user actions and application failures.
2.3. Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck 2.3 Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck Mountain Duck enables you to mount and access Acronis Storage S3 storage as a regular disk drive. Do the following: 1. If your service provider has provided you with an SSL certificate, install it. 2. In Mountain Duck, click New Bookmark. 3.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 4. In the login window, specify Secret Access Key and click Login.
2.4. Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage Mountain Duck will mount the S3 storage as a disk drive. On the disk, you can manage buckets and store files in them. 2.3.1 Creating S3 Buckets on Mounted S3 Storage Windows and Mac OS X, operating systems supported by MountainDuck, treat buckets as folders in case the S3 storage is mounted as a disk drive. In both operating systems, the default folder name contains spaces.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets check all the updates. 3. Run CLILauncher located in C:\Program Files\Veritas\Backup Exec. 4. In the Backup Exec command-line prompt, run the following command: # New-BECloudInstance -Name "cloudinstance" -Provider "cloudian" \ -ServiceHost "" -SslMode "Disabled" -UrlStyle "Path" 5. In Backup Exec, click Configure Cloud Storage on the Storage tab. 6. In the Configure storage... window, specify a name for Acronis Storage S3 and click NEXT.
2.4. Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage 7. Select the S3 device and click NEXT.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 8. Select cloudinstance [cloudian] from the Cloud storage drop-down list.
2.4. Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage 9. Click Add/Edit next to the Logon account drop-down list. 10. In the Logon Account Selection window, click Add.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 11. In the Account credentials section, specify your credentials: 11.1. S3 access key ID in the User name field. 11.2. S3 secure access key in the Password field and confirm it. 11.3. The username of your account in the Account name field.
2.4. Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage 12. Clear all the checkboxes and click OK. 13. Back in the Logon Account Selection window, make sure the newly added user account is selected and click OK.
Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets 14. Back in the Configure storage... window, click NEXT. 15. Select a bucket and click NEXT twice. 16. On the summary screen, click Finish, OK, and Yes. Once the Backup Exec services are restarted, the S3 storage will appear in the list on the Storage tab. Now you can create backup jobs and specify the S3 storage as destination. 2.
2.5. S3 Bucket and Key Naming Policies • can contain lowercase letters, numbers, periods (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_), • can be a series of valid name parts (described previously) separated by periods. An object key can be a string of any UTF-8 encoded characters up to 1024 bytes long.
CHAPTER 3 Accessing iSCSI Targets This section describes ways to attach Acronis Storage iSCSI targets to a number of operating systems and third-party virtualization solutions. 3.1 Accessing iSCSI Targets from CentOS 6 1. Make sure that the iscsi-initiator-utils package is installed. 2. Discover the required target by its IP address. For example: # iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.10.100 3.
3.2. Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 2. In the iSCSI Initiator Properties, switch to the Discovery tab and click Discover Portal.... 3. In the Discover Target Portal window, enter the portal IP address and click OK.
Chapter 3. Accessing iSCSI Targets The newly added portal will appear in the Target portals section. 4. On the iSCSI Initiator Properties > Targets tab, select the new target in the Discovered targets section and click Connect. 5. In the Connect to Target window, click OK.
3.2. Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 6. Target’s Inactive status will change to Connected. 7. The newly attached disk will appear in Server Manager Dashboard > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.
Chapter 3. Accessing iSCSI Targets 8. Right-click the disk information section and select Online. The disk status will change to Online. 9. Right-click the disk information section and select Initialize Disk.
3.2. Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 10. In the Initialize Disk window, click OK. 11. Right-click the disk space section, select New Simple Volume..., and follow the wizard’s instruction to format the new disk to NTFS.
Chapter 3. Accessing iSCSI Targets 12. The disk state will change to Healthy. The new disk will appear in Windows Explorer.
3.3. Accessing iSCSI Targets from VMware ESXi 3.3 Accessing iSCSI Targets from VMware ESXi 1. In the vSphere Client, switch to the Configuration tab, and click Storage Adapters in the Hardware section. 2. If no software iSCSI adapters have been added, do so by right-clicking in the Storage Adapters section and selecting Add Software iSCSI Adapter.... 3. Open the software iSCSI adapter’s properties, switch to the Static Discovery tab and click Add.... 4.
Chapter 3. Accessing iSCSI Targets 3.5 Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Hyper-V Note: Names of the targets to be mounted must not contain underscore characters. 1. Make sure that Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service, MSiSCSI, is running. 2. Discover a new target portal. For example, for the portal 192.168.10.100, run: PS C:\Users\Administrator>new-iscsitargetportal \ -targetportaladdress 192.168.10.
3.5. Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Hyper-V 4. To check that the disk has been connected, run PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-disk Number Friendly Name OperationalStatus Total Size ------ ----------------------------- ---------1 IET VIRTUAL-DISK SCSI Disk Device Offline 100 GB RAW ... You can now initialise the newly mounted disk for use in Microsoft Hyper-V. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation.
CHAPTER 4 Accessing NFS Shares This section describes ways to mount Acronis Storage NFS shares on Linux and MacOS. Note: Acronis Storage currently does not support the Windows built-in NFS client. 4.1 Mounting NFS Exports on Linux You can mount an NFS export created in Acronis Storage like any other directory exported via NFS. You will need the share IP address (or hostname) and the volume identifier. For example: # mount -t nfs -o vers=4.0 192.168.0.51:/0200000000000002/ /mnt/nfs where: • -o vers=4.
4.2. Mounting NFS Exports on MacOS 4.2 Mounting NFS Exports on MacOS You can mount an NFS export created in Acronis Storage like any other directory exported via NFS. You will need the share IP address (or hostname) and the volume identifier. Use either the command-line prompt or Finder: • In the command-line prompt, run the following command: # mount -t nfs -o vers=4.0 192.168.0.51:/0200000000000002/ /mnt/nfs where: • -o vers=4.0 is the NFS version to use. • 192.168.0.51 is the share IP address.
