Administering Buckets

Describes the operations you can perform related to buckets for the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.

Buckets are storage resources that store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.

Object-based storage is the preferred method of storing and efficiently managing gigantic volumes of data. Data are stored efficiently in a flat address space called as a storage pool and not as a tiered file structure. The address space is referenced by the metadata that holds the required information to retrieve the data. The metadata facilitates deep analysis of the usage and function of the data that is stored in the storage pool. The access protocol used in object storage architecture is TCP/IP and the communication medium is usually through REST APIs.

Objects can comprise disparate types of unstructured data such as audio files, video files, and images.

A user can store objects in the user's own account. Objects are stored inside containers called buckets. Every user can create buckets and set access policies or bucket policies to govern who can access the resources created by the user.

See Administering Bucket Policies for information on managing bucket policies.