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ECS 3.3 Administration Guide
  • Welcome to ECS
  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
  • ECS Outage and Recovery
  1. Home
  2. ECS Settings
  3. Introduction to ECS settings

  • Welcome to ECS

    ECS provides a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS can be deployed as a turnkey storage appliance or as a software product that can be installed on a set of qualified commodity servers and disks. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity infrastructure with the enterprise reliability, availability, and serviceability of traditional arrays.

  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
    • Introduction to ECS settings

    • Object base URL

      ECS supports Amazon S3 compatible applications that use virtual host style and path style addressing schemes. In multitenant configurations, ECS allows the namespace to be provided in the URL.

    • Change password

      You can use the ECS Portal to change your password.

    • Key Management

      To support Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE), ECS maintains a hierarchy of encryption keys where a parent key in the hierarchy is used to protect a child key. Prior to ECS 3.3, these keys were natively managed by ECS across the geo-federated environment. From ECS 3.3, support for certain External Key Management solutions that are Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) compliant have been added. Further to support industry standard practices, ECS 3.3 now supports user initiated key rotation to limit amount of data protected by any given key. Please note key rotation is available for both native and external key management.

    • EMC Secure Remote Services

      EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS) is the recommended way for your customer support representative to receive notification of potential system issues. ESRS enables your customer support representative to troubleshoot system errors remotely by analyzing logs.

    • Alert policy

      Alert policies are created to alert about metrics, and are triggered when the specified conditions are met. Alert policies are created per VDC.

    • Event notification servers

      You can add SNMPv2 servers, SNMPv3 servers, and Syslog servers to ECS to route SNMP and Syslog event notifications to external systems.

    • Platform locking

      You can use the ECS Portal to lock remote access to nodes.

    • Licensing

      ECS licensing is capacity-based. The ECS license file is a single file that contains base and add-on software features. A license applies to a single VDC. In geo-federated systems, each VDC requires a license. In a VDC configuration with multiple racks, the license file includes the total capacity for all racks in the VDC.

    • About this VDC

      You can view information about software version numbers for the current node or other nodes in the VDC on the About this VDC page.

  • ECS Outage and Recovery

Introduction to ECS settings

This section describes the settings that the System Administrator can view and configure in the Settings section of the ECS Portal. These settings include:

  • Object base URL
  • Password
  • Key management
  • ESRS
  • Alert policy
  • Event notification
  • Platform locking
  • Licensing
  • About this VDC