Configuring FlashBlade Object Store Replication

Splunk and Elastic

Audience
Public
Product
FlashBlade
FlashArray
FlashBlade > Purity//FB
FlashArray > Purity//FA
Technology Integrations
Splunk and Elastic
Source Type
Documentation

Object Replication set up between two FlashBlades involves the following sequence of activities.

  1. Establishing FlashBlade Array connections.
  2. Creating an object account, a user and an access key on the first FB.
  3. Creating similar object account, user and import the key on the second FB.
  4. Setting up remote credentials on both FlashBlade arrays.
  5. Creating a “multi-site-writable” S3 bucket with the same name on both FlashBlades.
  6. Configure the bucket life cycle policy on both FlashBlades.
  7. Configuring the Object Replica link with the above information on both FlashBlades.