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
qualified commodity servers and disks. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity
infrastructure with the enterprise reliability, availability, and serviceability of traditional arrays.
The ECS online documentation comprises the following guides:
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Administration Guide
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Monitoring Guide
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Data Access Guide
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Hardware Guide
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API Guide
Administration Guide
The
Administration Guide
supports the initial configuration of ECS and the provisioning of
storage to meet requirements for availability and data replication. Also, it supports the
ongoing management of tenants and users, and the creation and configuration of buckets.
Monitoring Guide
The
Monitoring Guide
supports the ECS administrator's use of the ECS Portal to monitor the
health and performance of ECS and to view its capacity utilization.
Data Access Guide
The
Data Access Guide
describes the protocols that are supported by ECS for user access to
ECS object storage. In addition to the S3, EMC Atmos, OpenStack Swift, and Centera (CAS)
object APIs, it introduces the ECS Management API, which can be used to configure ECS
before user access, and details the use of ECS as a Hadoop Filesystem (HDFS) and the
integration of ECS HDFS with a Hadoop cluster.
Hardware Guide
The
Hardware Guide
describes the supported hardware configurations and upgrade paths and
details the rack cabling requirements.
API Guide
The
API Guide
use the ECS Management API to configure, manage, and monitor ECS.
PDF versions of these online guides and links to other PDFs, such as the
ECS Security Configuration
Guide
and the
ECS Release Notes
, are available from support.emc.com.
ECS EXSeries Hardware Guide
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