1. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release OS8.8.x
  2. Configuring the Appliance
  3. Configuring Cloud Backup
  4. Preparing for Cloud Backup
  5. Setting Up Your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Account

Setting Up Your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Account

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers two distinct storage tiers that are robust and scalable: Standard storage is for frequently accessed storage, and archive storage is for less frequently accessed storage, requires a longer time to retrieve the data, and is more cost effective. Thus, the two tiers allow for maximum performance versus minimum cost. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage addresses storage, disaster recovery, data migration, and master image replication needs, while also providing data encryption during transport and at rest.

Create an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account and configure it, including creating buckets for your data. A bucket's tier can either be "standard" or "archive", and you cannot change a bucket's tier after creating the bucket. The cloud backup stores the data, the share snapshot; the metadata stores information about the data. Optionally, you can store metadata and data in different buckets. If you use an archive bucket, the metadata must be saved to a standard bucket.

Each cloud target uses one regional API endpoint (location), and each bucket can be used by multiple appliances. If you need to create multiple cloud targets with the same endpoint, create enough distinct buckets to contain them. From the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, be sure to note:

  • Regional API endpoint URLs, such as https://objectstorage.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com

  • Tenancy name and Oracle Cloud Identifier (OCID)

    For the OCID, go to your compartment. In the Tenancy Information tab, click Show or Copy for the OCID.

  • User name and OCID

    For the OCID, select your user name from the user icon in the upper right-hand corner. In the User Information tab, click Show or Copy for the OCID.

  • Private key: Create an RSA public/private key pair. The key must be in the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format. For more information, see "Required Keys and OCIDs" in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API documentation available at https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/apisigningkey.htm .

  • Bucket names

For information about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Service API, see “Object Storage Service API” in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API documentation available at https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/api/#/en/objectstorage/20160918/ . Here you will find such information as regional API endpoints (locations), how to create and manage buckets, and optional object lifecycle management.

Caution:

If you alter cloud backup objects in buckets in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, you will create inconsistencies with content stored locally. Therefore, it is recommended to use dedicated buckets for cloud backup.