syslog-ng Store Box 7.2.0 - Evaluation Guide

Prerequisites

Assigning the SSB logspace of your choice to a custom cloud service provider data disk has the following prerequisites:

• A valid cloud provider subscription, and a new custom cloud service provider data disk added on the cloud service provider side.

• Shutting your SSB device down before you begin adding a new managed disk on the cloud service provider side (for example, the Microsoft Azure portal or VMware ESXi).

• Adding a new custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration.

Limitations

Assigning the SSB logspace of your choice to a custom cloud service provider data disk has the following limitations:

• Caution: HAZARD OF DATA LOSS! One Identity does not support decreasing the size of a Microsoft Azure or VMware ESXi managed disk added to your SSB configuration as a custom cloud service provider data disk.

• NOTE: If you fail to assign the newly created SSB logspace of your choice to the new custom cloud service provider data disk, SSB will not automatically detect and use the new custom cloud service provider data disk to store messages on it.

• NOTE: Resizing your custom cloud service provider data disk on the Microsoft Azure or VMware ESXi side may be quick, depending on your infrastructure, but your SSB configuration must resize the file system on your SSB side to match the resizing on the Microsoft Azure or VMware ESXi side. As a result, depending on the original size of the custom cloud service provider data disk and on the size you will expand it to, starting the virtual machine for your SSB device after you expand the size of your custom cloud service provider data disk may take a long time.

• In version 7.2.0, SSB supports adding Microsoft Azure managed disks of up to 32,767 GiB storage space to your SSB device. For more information about managed data disks in Microsoft Azure, see Disk type comparison in the Microsoft Azure online documentation.

• Transporting custom cloud service provider data disks between SSB devices is not supported.

• CAUTION: HAZARD OF DATA LOSS! One Identity does not support decreasing the size of an additional VMware ESXi hard disk added to your SSB configuration as a custom cloud service provider data disk.

  You can only add, remove, or resize a custom cloud service provider data disk in your configuration after shutting your SSB device down first. Hot swaps are not supported.

• You can only add an Azure managed disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB on the Microsoft Azure portal side.

• SSB only accepts and detects empty disks as custom cloud service provider data disks. As a result, you can only add a newly created Azure managed disk or VMware ESXi disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration. Adding an already existing Azure managed disk (by clicking Attach existing disks on the Microsoft Azure portal) or already existing VMware ESXi disk is not supported.

• One Identity does not support adding Microsoft Azure or VMware ESXi managed disks to your SSB logspaces as a shared disk.

• The number of managed disks you can add on the Microsoft Azure portal depends on the type of Microsoft Azure subscription you are using.

After adding a new managed disk on your cloud service provider side, and adding it as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration, you have to assign the SSB logspace of your choice to a custom cloud service provider data disk.

To assign the SSB logspace of your choice to a custom cloud service provider data disk,

1. Add a new managed disk on your cloud service provider side.

2. Add the newly created managed disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration.

3. Navigate to Log > Logspaces, then click to add a new logspace, and find a descriptive name for it (for example, the same name that you added for the new custom cloud service provider data disk, in this case, your-custom-data-disk).

   Figure 45: Log > Logspaces — Adding a new logspace that you will assign to the new custom cloud service provider data disk

   

4. Under Log > Logspaces > <your-new-logspace-with-custom-data-disk> > Storage > Disk, select the data disk you want to use for your new logspace.

   In addition to the default SSB internal storage option, you will have more data disk options in the dropdown list, including any newly created custom cloud service provider data disks you recently added to your SSB configuration.

   Figure 46: Log > Logspaces > <your-new-logspace-with-custom-data-disk> > Storage > Disk — Selecting the data disk for your new logspace

   

   NOTE:

   If you set a custom cloud service provider data disk under Log > Logspaces > <your-new-logspace-with-custom-data-disk> > Storage > Disk, you can not change it after committing your logspace configuration.

   NOTE: For newly created logspaces, selecting a data disk for your logspace is required.

5. After selecting the data disk of your choice (in this case, the custom cloud service provider data disk we added earlier, that is, your-custom-data-disk), click .

   Figure 47: Log > Logspaces > <your-new-logspace-with-custom-data-disk> > Storage > Disk — New logspace assigned to your new custom cloud service provider data disk

   

   NOTE:After adding a newly created custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration, and assigning the SSB logspace of your choice to it, removing the custom cloud service provider data disk from your SSB configuration has a strict order, especially if there are referenced objects tied to the custom cloud service provider data disk. For more information about the process to remove such custom cloud service provider data disks from your SSB configuration, see Removing a custom cloud service provider data disk from your SSB configuration.

   TIP: The size of the logspace is displayed in the Size row of the logspace details. To refresh the data, select Get current size.