How do I use SoDA with Wasabi?

Wasabi has been validated for use with SoDA. SoDA’s data management software is storage agnostic, providing unprecedented insight into a company’s storage ecosystem. To learn more about the Wasabi - SoDA solution, please refer to our joint solution brief. To use this product with Wasabi, please follow the instructions below.

Table of Contents

1. Reference Architecture

2. Prerequisites

3. Configuration

3.1. Adding Wasabi Storage

3.2 Adding Local Storage

4. Moving Data into Wasabi

4.1. Moving Data via Quick Transfer

4.2. Moving Data via Policy

 

Reference Architecture

 

Prerequisites

• SoDA v 22.1.1
• An active Wasabi account

 

Configuration

Adding Wasabi Storage

1. Log in to the SoDA User Interface.

2. Click Storage in the left-hand menu.

 

3. Click Price Books.

 

4. Click the Add Price Book button.

 

5. Fill out the Add Price Book page as shown below, checking for any updated pricing from Wasabi. Click the Save button to finalize the updates.

 

6. Click Storage.

 

7. Click Add Storage.

 

8. Fill out the page as shown below.  If you want to use a prefix (or folder), you can specify one.  Use your own SoDA Storage Name and the bucket you created in Wasabi.

 

9. Click Save to finalize your updates. After clicking Save, the corresponding Storage card view appears.

 

10. Click Agents in the left-hand menu.

 

11. Click Accessors.

 

12. Click Add Accessor.

 

13. Enter the fields as shown below.

• Provide a name for your access method.
• Select Accessor Type Custom S3.
• Enter the appropriate URL for your Wasabi region in the Api URL field. 
• Use the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for your bucket that Wasabi supplied to you.
• Click the Configure Accessor button to finalize your updates.

Note: Each Agent can have a different access key if desired.

Note: This config example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-west-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article

 

14. Your newly-created Accessor is then listed.

 

15. Click Agents.

 

16. Click on any Agent that you want to access the Wasabi bucket.

 

17. Click the Attach Storage button.

 

18. Select the Wasabi storage you created, and your accessor, as shown below.

 

19. Click the Attach button, confirm that it is now attached, as shown below, and close the window.

 

20. Click Storage in the left-hand menu.

 

21. Click on your Wasabi storage.

 

22. Click on the 3 dots in the top-right to open the additional options. Click Enable.

 

23. Your Wasabi bucket is now online, as indicated by the blue icon.

 

Adding Local Storage

Before creating file storage, SoDA offers the ability to create a price book on file-based storage.  Follow the instructions in the Wasabi Price Book but select a local price book. Once finished follow the instructions below to add local storage.

24. Click Storage in the left-hand menu.

 

25. Click the Add Storage button.

 

26. Give your Storage a name and select File as the Storage Type.  If you configured a local price book, select it here and click Save to finalize the updates.

 

27. Your new storage appears, as shown below.

 

28. Click Agents in the left-hand menu.

29. Click Accessors.

 

30. Click the Add Accessor button.

 

31. Enter the fields as shown below:

1. • Give your access method a name.
   • Select Local as the Accessor Type.
   • Enter the appropriate mount path in the Path field
   • For Linux, use the root path.
   • For Windows, use the Volume letter and folder “V:\Files”.

 

32. Click the Configure Accessor button to create the Accessor, and your new Accessor appears in the list as shown below.

 

33. Click Agents.

 

34. Click on any Agent you want to access the local file mount.

 

35. Click the Attach Storage button.

 

36. Select the File Storage you created, and your Accessor, as shown below, and click the Attach button.

 

37. When the Attach Agent to Storage screen closes, you see the newly attached Agent listed as attached in the previous Agent display, as shown below and close the window.

 

38. Click Storage in the left-hand menu.

39. Click on your “My Local Storage” storage card.

 

40. Click on the 3 dots in the top-right to open additional options. Click Enable.

 

41. Your file-based storage is now online, as indicated by the blue icon.

 

Moving Data into Wasabi

You can move data in and out of Wasabi using SoDA by establishing a Policy or by using a one-time Quick Transfer.  To do so using a Quick Transfer, follow the procedure below, or proceed to the Moving Data via Policy procedure to do so that way.

Moving Data via Quick Transfer

42. Click Jobs in the left-hand menu.

 

43. Click the Quick Transfer button.

 

44. On the Quick Transfer Page, do the following:

• Select your Source as “My Local Storage”.
• Select your Target as “My Wasabi Bucket”.
• Select Copy/Move/Sync in the drop-down between the Source and Target fields to indicate how to transfer the data.
  • Copy and Move use conflict handling of Overwrite/Rename/Skip for identical files already on the Target.
  • Sync makes a Smart Duplicate of the Source to the Target, including propagating deletes.
• Click on the right of the Source to select the folders to transfer.
• Click on the right of the Target to select folders to create or to put data into.
• Select Filters to filter the data set as desired.
  • Once ready, click the Dry Run button, which simulates the transfer and calculates the cost and time of the transfer, without actually executing the transfer.

 

45. The results of the dry run display, as shown below.

 

46. Determine if the dry run is successful.  If so, proceed to the next step, otherwise, reconfigure your Quick Transfer by returning to step 44 above.

47. When satisfied with the dry run results, click the Transfer Now button at the top-right of the page to begin the transfer.