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CloudTier Demo ReadMe

CloudTier Storage Tiering SDK provides you a simple solution to develop the cloud archiving software, it allows you to integrate your existing on-premises applications 
with the remote cloud storage infrastructure in a seamless, secure, and transparent fashion. The cloud tiering is a data storage technique which automatically moves data 
between high-cost on-premise storage and low-cost remote cloud storage, it provides a native cloud storage tier, it allows you to free up on-premise storage capacity, 
by moving out cooler data to the cloud storage, thereby reducing capital and operational expenditures.

CloudTier demo is a simple C# application, to demo how to use the transparent storage tiering SDK. 

You can run the demo application as the console app with below command in dos prompt:
Cloudtierdemo.exe -console

You can install the demo application as the Windows service with below command in dos prompt:
Cloudtierdemo.exe -installservice

You can run the demo application as the Windows Forms GUI application with below command:
Cloudtierdemo.exe

How does CloudTier demo work?

1.	Create the stub files first, go to tools->create stub test files.
	By creating the stub file, you can move out your data to low-cost remote storage, 
        
2.	The test source folder stores the file data to simulate the remote host server. 
	You can store your source file data anywhere, i.e. Amazon s3, Azure storage or your own private cloud storage.

3.	The test stub file folder stores the test stub files.
	The stub file doesn't take the storage space, it only keeps the meta data you created.

4.	After the stub files were created, start the filter service. The stub files can be read as a regular file, when you open the stub file, 
	all data will read from the source file by the demo application.

5.	For demo purpose, the new stub file’s reparse point tag always pointing to the source file, you can change it to your remote sever, or in the cloud.