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Enter BlackPearl Storage Location Information

IMPORTANT 

See “Understanding Spectra Advanced Bucket Management Concepts” in the Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage System User Guide for information about configuring data placement policies for a bucket to meet your archiving needs and for instructions to gather the information to configure the storage location.

If you select the BlackPearl storage type, the dialog box updates to display the following:

Figure 36 The New Storage Location dialog box with BlackPearl specific fields.

1. Select whether archived data should be packed into larger files for transfer, and, if so, which Packing Type to use. Packing reduces the count of objects sent to a BlackPearl system and larger files transfer to a BlackPearl system faster than multiple smaller files.

Notes: 

• Spectra Logic recommends using packing when a majority of files are smaller than 100 KB and no files are larger than 10 GB.
• Spectra Logic recommends using ZIP for Windows clients and TAR for UNIX clients.
• Files continue to be added to packs until the pack reaches 10,000 files or goes beyond 10 GB of data.
• Up to five packs can be created at the same time.
2. Enter the IP address or hostname for the BlackPearl Management Port. Include http://.
3. Enter the Username of a BlackPearl user with Login user access as well as Monitor and/or Administrator user access, or if the BlackPearl system has Active Directory configured, an Active Directory administrator.
4. Enter the Password associated with the username entered above.
5. Enter an IP address or hostname for the BlackPearl Data Port. Include http://.
6. Enter the S3 Access ID of a user with credentials for the BlackPearl system and the bucket that will be used for data storage.
7. Enter the S3 Secret Key associated with the S3 Access ID entered above.
8. Enter the name of the Bucket to be used for data storage. If the bucket does not exist, it is created.

CAUTION 

Make sure the target bucket uses a data policy with versioning enabled to avoid migrate/ store jobs failing if a file with the same name already exists in the Bucket.
Note: Bucket Names must meet the following criteria:
• Bucket names must be at least 1 character long and not more than 63 characters long.
• Bucket names must not contain special characters such as @, $, #, %, {, }, or |.
9. If desired, select the Retention Policy check box and enter or select the desired number of days to retain files on this storage location before the StorCycle solution automatically deletes the files for compliance or capacity recovery. Clear the Retention Policy check box to keep files permanently. See Retention Policy Best Practices for more information.
Note: Retention policies are only supported for data center and enterprise licenses. See Licensing for more information.
10. Click Test Location to verify that the server can connect to the storage location. If the StorCycle solution does not return a check mark indicating it can communicate with the storage location, you must resolve the error before submitting the location.
11. Click Submit to save the storage location.
12. If necessary, repeat these steps, starting with Step 2 in Configuring Storage to configure additional storage locations.