Hitachi HCP object storage as a data protection source.

@Hongmo Kim , I don’t see it listed anywhere, though I’ll check with our docs team to be thorough.

I would expect that the original data source replicates data to HCP in order to provide data retention and resilience.

The original data source in this case is backed up by Commvault.

Does this customer use HCP as a primary data location?

Can you provide more context in order to see if this is the most efficient route?

@Jos Meijer 

Thanks for your opinion.

Yes. Customer uses HCP as a primary data storage and just wants to back this up using CV into any storage which is handled by CV as a backup target.

Hello @Hongmo Kim 

I have in the past been backing up some tenants on the Hitachi HCP. It’s not very fast but it was possible.

You need to install the “Cloud Apps” package on the MediaAgent doing the backup.

Then add a new Cloud storage “Amazon S3” client. Give it a client name, Instance name and choose the Access Node where the cloud app was installed, and choose a storage policy. Under “Connection Details” fill out the host url, and choose “Access and secret keys”. Select the credential for the tenant (you need to add this to the Credentials manager)

After this, the client should have been created and in the subclient you can configure content to backup, storage policy etc.

Remember firewall openings if the HCP is on a separate network.

Hope this helps a little bit

Regards

-Anders

FYI   @Mike Struening @ApK 

Finally I’ve succeeded in configuring the Hitachi HCP as protection source using amazon S3 API.

We have to input URL including http protocol and tenant user’s access and secret key.

HCP is not certificated yet but verified it worked. 

Hope you find this useful.