About buckets and objects

The Object Store sever consists of a collection of objects. The container of an object is known as a bucket. In Veritas Access Object Store, the buckets are stored on file systems as directories and object are stored as files.

Buckets and objects are resources which can be managed using the APIs.

Once the Object Store Server is configured, you can create bucket and objects and perform the required operations.

Veritas Access supports the following methods for accessing the buckets and the objects:

• Path-style method

• Virtual-hosted-style method

  When using the virtual hosted-style method, the bucket_name.s3.cluster_name should be DNS resolvable.

Buckets are created by S3 clients by calling the standard S3 APIs to the Veritas Access S3 server. For creating a bucket, you need the endpoint of the Veritas Access server, access key, and the secret key. The endpoint of the Veritas Access Object Store server is s3.cluster_name:8143.

The Veritas Access Object Store server can also be accessed using the fully qualified domain name:

            
s3.cluster_name.fqdn:8143
         

If you are logged on as an Active Directory (AD) user, you can create an access and a secret key. If you log on as an administrator, you can view the access key you created for each S3 user by navigating to Settings > S3 Management > S3 User Management.

Make sure that you associate one (or more) of the VIPs of the Veritas Access cluster to s3.cluster_name.fqdn in the client's DNS server.

Table: Object and bucket restrictions describes the restrictions enforced by the Veritas Access Object Storage Server. Configure your S3 clients within these limitations to ensure that Veritas Access works correctly.

Table: Object and bucket restrictions