We have licensing for OnTap S3. We have 2 clusters (both running 9.8P2 and both consisting of 2 x AFF8040s and 2 x FAS8200s). I have been told that we can tier cold data from the AFF nodes to the FAS nodes and was directed to https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.pow-s3-cg/S3%20configuration.pdf and https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17219-tr4814pdf.pdf
We only have one SVM on each cluster. The configuration guide in the first link above says that a new SVM isn't needed, but "you might choose to create a new SVM if one of the following is true: You are enabling S3 on a cluster for the first time". Given we are enabling S3 for the first time, should we really make a new SVM for it?
For the features that we want to use, is a dedicated LIF needed? If not and we can/decide to use the same SVM, we just need to do the following?
Create a certificate request and sign it by a CA
Go to Storage VMs, click on out existing SVM, click on the gear icon in the S3 section
Give the server a name
Paste the cert and private key
Select "Use the same network interface that is already configured for the SMB/CIFS and NFS protocols" and then pick an interface.
Create a bucket and tier to it?
Another thing we do want to do is to tier snapshots to an AWS instance so that we have them far away from us. Do we then need a Amazon S3 or Cloud Tiering Service license? Given that goal plus the potential of using other S3 features locally, would we be hindering ourselves by adding S3 to an existing interface as mentioned above (and we really should just create a dedicated interface for S3)?