Acronis Cyber Infrastructure - 3.0 User Manual

Acronis Cyber
Infrastructure 3.0

Storage User’s Guide

November 20, 2019

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Contents

1. Supported Storage Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Accessing S3 Buckets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.1 Managing Buckets via the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure User Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.1.1 Logging in to User Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.1.2 Adding, Deleting, and Listing S3 Buckets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1.2.1 Listing S3 Bucket Contents in a Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.3 Creating, Deleting, and Listing Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.4 Uploading and Downloading Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.5 Obtaining and Validating File Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2 Accessing S3 Storage with CyberDuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2.1 Managing S3 Bucket Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.3 Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3.1 Creating S3 Buckets on Mounted S3 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.4 Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.5 S3 Bucket and Key Naming Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3. Accessing iSCSI Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.1 Accessing iSCSI Targets from VMware ESXi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2 Accessing iSCSI Targets from Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.3 Accessing iSCSI Targets from Microsoft Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4. Accessing NFS Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.1 Mounting NFS Exports on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.2 Mounting NFS Exports on MacOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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CHAPTER 1

Supported Storage Types

Your service provider can configure Acronis Cyber Infrastructure to keep your data in three storage types:

• S3 object storage for storing an unlimited number of objects (files).

• iSCSI block storage for virtualization, databases, and other needs.

• NFS shares for storing an unlimited number of files via a distributed filesystem.

The following sections describe the ways to access data in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure in detail.

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CHAPTER 2

Accessing S3 Buckets

To access 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 Cyber Infrastructure allows you to access your S3 data in several ways:

• via the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure user panel

• via a third-party S3 application like Cyberduck, Mountain Duck, Backup Exec, etc.

2.1 Managing Buckets via the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure User Panel

This section describes how to manage buckets and their contents from the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure user

panel.

2.1.1 Logging in to User Panel

To log in to the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure user panel, do the following:

1. On any computer with access to the web interface, in a web browser visit

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http://<user_panel_IP_address>:8888/s3/.

2. On the login screen, enter your credentials and click LOG IN.

Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets

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.

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 (page 13).

• To delete a bucket, select it and click Delete.

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• To list bucket contents, click a bucket name in the list.

2.1.2.1 Listing S3 Bucket Contents in a Browser

You can list bucket contents with a web browser. To do this, visit the URL that consists of the external DNS

name for the S3 endpoint that you specified when creating the S3 cluster and the bucket name. For example,

mys3storage.example.com/mybucket.

Note: You can also copy the link to bucket contents by right-clicking it in CyberDuck, and then selecting

Copy URL.

2.1.3 Creating, Deleting, and Listing Folders

On the bucket contents screen:

• To create a folder, click New folder, specify folder name in the New folder window, and click Add.

• 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.

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• To download files, select them and click Download.

Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets

2.1.5 Obtaining and Validating File Certificates

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 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.

After that, you will be able to do the following:

• To get a notarization certificate for a file, select it and click Get Certificate.

• To check the validity of a file’s certificate, click Verify.

2.2 Accessing S3 Storage with CyberDuck

To access Acronis Cyber Infrastructure with CyberDuck, do the following:

1. In CyberDuck, click Open Connection.

2. Specify your credentials:

• The DNS name of the S3 endpoint.

• The Access Key ID and the Password, the secret access key of an object storage user.

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Chapter 2. Accessing S3 Buckets

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. Use bucket names that comply with DNS

naming conventions. For more information on bucket naming, see S3 Bucket and Key Naming Policies

(page 13).

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. For more information about

bucket versioning, refer to the Amazon documentation.

Bucket versioning is turned off by default. In CyberDuck, you can enable it in bucket properties. For example:

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