5. Create an S3 bucket with the same name on both FlashBlades
Splunk and Elastic
- Audience
- Public
- Product
- FlashBlade
- FlashArray
- FlashBlade > Purity//FB
- FlashArray > Purity//FA
- Technology Integrations
- Splunk and Elastic
- Source Type
- Documentation
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Go to the Object Store tab under the Storage view on the first FlashBlade. Click on the object store account (analytics in this example) under which the S3 bucket has to be created. Click the + (add) button against the Buckets view.
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Provide a name for the S3 bucket and select the Bucket Type as “multi-site-writable” and click the Create button.
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Object replication requires versioning at the target bucket level. Enable the versioning at the bucket level, by clicking the ellipsis against the bucket and selecting the Enable versioning option
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Confirm the dialog to enable the version on the S3 bucket by pressing the Enable button.
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Repeat the same on the second FlashBlade as well. Versioning at the S3 bucket level is required on both FlashBlades to setup the bi-directional object replica link.
