Dell ObjectScale Application 1.3.x Installation Guide for Red Hat OpenShift

Product Description

ObjectScale is an enterprise-grade object storage system from Dell that runs efficiently on shared infrastructure and in multi-tenant environments.

ObjectScale gives organizations the power to put data closer to the applications they support, reducing latency and improving the user experience. In addition, object storage from disparate platforms can cross-replicate for greater access, reliability, and redundancy.

ObjectScale offers the following major functionality:

• Simple, S3-compatible enterprise-grade object storage
• Kubernetes-based, customer-deployable
• Scaled-out, software-defined architecture

Other important features of ObjectScale include:

• Improved data protection with new erasure coding schemes
• New replication model with eventual consistency for greater availability during hardware failure
• Integrated management of bucket or object events, enabling bucket notifications, ObjectScale replication, and metering
• A complete multi-tenant IAM service with IAM accounts, with each account supporting IAM entities such as users, groups, roles, policies, and service providers

ObjectScale runs in Kubernetes. Building ObjectScale for Kubernetes allowed Dell to deliver a simplified product where Kubernetes handles the OS- and hardware-level layers. ObjectScale handles the storage and storage management.

With this underlying Kubernetes architecture, ObjectScale gives you segmented control of the storage, compute, and network services. The architecture allows for dynamic provisioning of resources. You can control when new services are started on an as needed basis. These new resources are tied to the underlying resources upon creation.

Here are some of the benefits Kubernetes provides for ObjectScale:

• Predictable application deployment using a declarative method
• Dynamic scaling of application resources
• Deployment using only required resources
• Highly portable across deployment models
• Self-healing: Autoplacement, auto restart, and autoreplication

In Kubernetes, each resource can be affinitized to run on one host. Affinization of resources to hosts allows ObjectScale to behave as its own fault domain.