A Hosted Design Storage Implementation

Hosted Storage service is not just the same code base hosted in the cloud. We’ve created a much simpler and cleaner implementation using KvStorage. Hosted Storage uses KvStorage attachments (BLOB storage). While the REST APIs for hosted and on-premises storage are incompatible, our C# SDK provides a unified API that works for both hosted and on-premises storage options. This abstraction allows our services and ArcFM XI-series applications to support both types of storage seamlessly.

No client-side configuration is required. You only need to request Hosted Storage when requesting your tenant. See the topic Request a Tenant for more information.

Once requested, our internal team will create your storage and populate the Design Storage Service URL in Solution Center > Designer plugin > Client Application > General. This is the same configuration setting that would hold an on-premises URL for Design Storage service.

Hosted Storage service does not interact with on-premises applications other than the Designer XI application, so there is no additional software to install or service to configure. Logging related to Hosted Storage is available in the logs of the calling application: Designer XI application logs for the Designer XI client application and Hosted Edge logs for Hosted Edge.

We do have a transfer tool in Solution Center that can help migrate on-premises storage data to our Hosted Storage solution for some tenants, depending on the amount of data to be transferred.