OBJECT BASED STORAGE CLUSTER WITH MULTIPLE SELECTABLE DATA HANDLING POLICIES

摘要

Methods and systems to configure an object-based storage cluster with multiple selectable data handling policies, including to map an object to a storage device/node of the cluster based on the policy associated with the object. In an embodiment, each policy is associated with a respective one of multiple rings, partitions of which are mapped to storage devices of the same cluster, objects are associated with buckets/containers, and each bucket/container is associated within a user-selectable one of the policies, such as with a metadata-based policy index, and an object is mapped to a storage device/node of the cluster based on the ring associated with the policy index of the object's container.

主权项

1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
assigning data objects to container objects; associating each of the container objects with one of multiple selectable data handling policies; and assigning each data object to a region of a storage device within the cluster of storage devices based in part on the data handling policy associated with the container object of the respective data object.